disturbed
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- unbalanced, disordered, maladjusted, neurotic, troubled, upset
- worried, anxious, apprehensive, bothered, concerned, nervous, troubled, uneasy, upset

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English Thesaurus: mentally ill, crazy, mad, insane, disturbed, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

dis‧turbed /dɪˈstɜːbd $ -ɜːrbd/ adjective
[Word Family: adjective: disturbed ≠ undisturbed, disturbing; verb: disturb; noun: disturbance; adverb: disturbingly]

1. not behaving normally because of a mental condition
mentally/emotionally disturbed
the care of emotionally disturbed children
while the balance of his mind was disturbed

2. worried or upset
disturbed by/about/at
Police are very disturbed about the latest trend.
seriously/deeply/greatly etc disturbed
disturbed to find/see/discover/learn etc
She was disturbed to learn he had bought a motorbike.
disturbed that
I’m disturbed that so many of the students appear to be illiterate.

3. disturbed sleep sleep that is interrupted

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

disturbed
adj.
I. mentally ill
VERBS be, seem | become
ADV. acutely, deeply, highly, seriously, severely, very Many of our patients are severely disturbed.
behaviourally, emotionally, mentally, psychiatrically, psychologically emotionally disturbed children

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

disturbed
II. very anxious
VERBS be, feel | become
ADV. deeply, greatly, profoundly, very | a little, slightly, vaguely | oddly
PREP. by I felt oddly disturbed by the incident.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

mentally ill having an illness that affects your mind and your behaviour:
Many mentally ill people are treated in the community.
He was declared mentally ill and unfit to stand trial.
crazy informal mentally ill:
I couldn’t think straight. I felt like I was going crazy (=becoming crazy).
mad old-fashioned mentally ill. This word is now usually considered offensive, and is usually used in a different meaning, when you think that someone's ideas are not sensible:
Swift himself went mad (=became mad) later in life.
a mad old woman
insane [not before noun] old-fashioned having a serious and permanent mental illness:
She went insane after her two young sons were murdered.
a hospital for the criminally insane
disturbed not behaving in a normal way because of mental or emotional problems, especially problems that are caused by bad experiences:
She teaches emotionally disturbed children.
Her experiences left her deeply disturbed.
unstable having an emotional state that often changes very suddenly:
Her mother was mentally unstable.
He lived in a small Putney flat with his ageing Aunt Bunny, and his emotionally unstable sister, Nancy.
He was too unstable to be a leader.
deranged behaving in a crazy or dangerous way, usually because of being mentally ill:
A deranged young woman entered the school and took the life of one young boy.
psychopathic having a serious and permanent mental illness that causes violent or criminal behaviour:
The film is about a psychopathic killer.
psychotic suffering from or caused by a serious mental illness that changes your character and makes you unable to behave in a normal way:
psychiatric services for chronic psychotic patients.
There is a tendency for psychotic illnesses to be inherited.
neurotic relating to or suffering from a mental illness that makes you unreasonably worried of frightened:
His mother was neurotic and insecure.
She's neurotic about her weight.
A bored or lonely horse may become so neurotic that it chases itself around in circles.

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