Word Meanings - PERTURBED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Agitated; disturbed; troubled. Shak. -- Per*turb"ed*ly, adv.

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• AGITATO
  Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• 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
• 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
• TROUBLESOME
  Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing;
• 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;
• TROUBLE
  turbulare, L. turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Gr. thorp; cf. Skr. tvar, 1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate. An angel went down at a certain season into the pool,
• TROUBLOUS
  Full of trouble; causing trouble. "In doubtful time of troublous need." Byron. A tall ship tossed in troublous seas. Spenser.
• 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,
• TROUBLABLE
  Causing trouble; troublesome. troublable ire." Chaucer.
• AGITATIVE
  Tending to agitate.
• DISTURB
  desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare 1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms
• DISTURBATION
  Act of disturbing; disturbance. Daniel.
• DISTURBER
  One who interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler. A needless disturber of the peace of God's church and an author of
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• OVERAGITATE
  To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.
• SUBAGITATION
  Unlawful sexual intercourse.
• EXAGITATION
  Agitation. Bailey.
• FLAGITATION
  Importunity; urgent demand. Carlyle.
• FLAGITATE
  To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. Carcyle.
• INDISTURBANCE
  Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.