Crossword clues for disconcerted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disconcert \Dis`con*cert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disconcerted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disconcerting.] [Pref. dis- + concert: cf. OF. desconcerter, F. d['e]concerter.]
To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
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To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.
The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do.
--Thackeray.Syn: To discompose; derange; ruffle; confuse; disturb; defeat; frustrate.
Wiktionary
1 ruffled, upset and embarrassed 2 self-consciously distressed 3 frustrated and disarranged v
(past participle of disconcert English)
WordNet
adj. having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion; "the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand"; "looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted"- G.B.Shaw [syn: discombobulated]
Usage examples of "disconcerted".
Slightly disconcerted by the sight, Althea determinedly forced her gaze up to his bright blue eyes that looked down on her inquiringly.
I glanced across at Oban and was disconcerted to find his pale, unblinking eyes on me.
On riding closer, Zeid was further disconcerted to see the tents of both tribes pitched around the Tel, with the outer signs of having been here for some length of time.
Aleytys felt awe-stricken and somewhat disconcerted to find her estimates of the great mass of the squale erring on the low side.
Chadband unpleasantly warm, but to represent the innocent Mr. Snagsby in the light of a determined enemy to virtue, with a forehead of brass and a heart of adamant, that unfortunate tradesman becomes yet more disconcerted and is in a very advanced state of low spirits and false position when Mr.
The disconcerted young man bows, as he goes out, and cringingly hopes that Mr. Tulkinghorn of the Fields is well.
Cavalcanti, -- his presence soon produced its usual effect, and it was with smiles that the baroness received the count, although she had been a little disconcerted at the announcement of his name.
Robin is disconcerted yet excited by the lure of seduction on her face as she assesses him.
Chewing her wedding cake Babygirl is disconcerted to discover something tough, sinewy, bristly in it, like gristle, or fragments of bone, or tiny bits of wire, but she is too well-bred and embarrassed to spit the foreign substance, if it is a foreign substance, out: discreetly pushes it with her tongue to the side of her mouth, behind her molars, for safe-keeping.
I glanced at the driver, hoping to gauge his charitableness, and saw what I'd been too disconcerted to observe before, why he was the only cabbie in the madhouse drive.
He was no good in discussion, not because any amount of argument could shake his faith, but because the mere fact of hearing another voice disconcerted him painfully, confusing his thoughts at once - these thoughts that for so many years, in a mental solitude more barren than a waterless desert, no living voice had ever combatted, commented, or approved.
Mahmoud hesitated, then decided not to ask the obvious complementary question, as it would hint at how disconcerted he had been-at first-to discover the extent of his own conjugational commitments.
Small wonder that at the time I sensed my coming forth had disconcerted Akhmim, throwing him off-balance.
He had struck Durla as faint of heart during the questioning of the traitor, Rem Lanas, and positively disconcerted upon the imprisonment of Milifa.
Disconcerted religious opponents of Fuhlrott's theory put forward the rather unconvincing argument that there could not be a fossil man, because fossil men ought not to exist.