Word Meanings - PERTURBABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.

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• AGITATO
  Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• AGITATION
  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• PERTURBATIVE
  Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing. Sir J. Herschel.
• PERTURB
  disturb, fr. turba a disorder: cf. OF. perturber. See Per-, and 1. To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet. Ye that . . . perturb so my feast with crying. Chaucer. 2. To disorder; to confuse. Sir T. Browne.
• DISQUIETMENT
  State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• DISQUIETOUS
  Causing uneasiness. So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.
• PERTURBER
  One who, or that which, perturbs, or cause perturbation.
• DISQUIETNESS
  Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness. Hooker.
• PERTURBATION
  A disturbance in the regular elliptic or other motion of a heavenly body, produced by some force additional to that which causes its regular motion; as, the perturbations of the planets are caused by their attraction on each other. Newcomb. (more
• DISQUIETFUL
  Producing inquietude or uneasiness. Barrow.
• DISQUIETER
  One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.
• DISQUIET
  Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy. Shak.
• PERTURBATE
  Perturbed; agitated.
• AGITATEDLY
  In an agitated manner.
• AGITATOR
  One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon. 3. An implement for shaking or mixing. (more info) 1. One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as,
• PERTURBATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets. "The perturbational theory." Sir J. Herschel.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• PLIABLE
  1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
• COMPLIABLE
  Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
• IMPERTURBABLY
  In an imperturbable manner; calmly. C. Bronté.
• CONCILIABLE
  A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. Bacon.
• OVERAGITATE
  To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.
• IMPERTURBATION
  Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu.
• SUBAGITATION
  Unlawful sexual intercourse.