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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISTURBED, pp. Stirred; moved; excited; discomposed; disquieted; agitated; uneasy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having the place or position changed; "the disturbed books and papers on her desk"; "disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed"
2: afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children" [syn: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worried]
3: emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships [syn: disturbed, maladjusted]
4: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1904 showing symptoms of emotional illness <disturbed children> <disturbed behavior>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disturb Dis*turb", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disturbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disturbing.] [OE. desturben, destourben, OF. destorber, desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare to disturb, trouble, turba disorder, tumult, crowd. See Turbid.] 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 above. --Cowper. The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest. --Spenser. The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority. --Burke. 2. To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy. 3. To turn from a regular or designed course. [Obs.] And disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim. --Milton. Syn: To disorder; disquiet; agitate; discompose; molest; perplex; trouble; incommode; ruffle.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A disturbed person is very upset emotionally, and often needs special care or treatment. ...working with severely emotionally disturbed children... ADJ 2. You can say that someone is disturbed when they are very worried or anxious. Doctors were disturbed that less than 30 percent of the patients were women... = concerned ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ that, ADJ to-inf 3. If you describe a situation or period of time as disturbed, you mean that it is unhappy and full of problems. ...women from disturbed backgrounds. = troubled ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, aggravated, agitated, all-overish, amiss, angry, annoyed, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, askew, astray, at sea, awry, balled-up, batty, beset, bewildered, bonkers, bothered, brain-damaged, brain-injured, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, cast down, catatonic, certifiable, chafed, chagrined, chaotic, chapfallen, clueless, cockeyed, concerned, confused, convulsed, crazy, depressed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, dismayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, embarrassed, exasperated, excited, fearful, feverish, fidgety, flurried, flustered, fluttered, foreboding, fussed, galled, griped, guessing, haywire, hung up, hypochondriac, hysteric, ill at ease, in a fix, in a jumble, in a maze, in a pickle, in a pother, in a pucker, in a scrape, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in disorder, insane, irked, irritated, jittery, jumbled, jumpy, lost, mad, maladjusted, manic-depressive, mazed, mentally ill, mentally sick, miffed, misgiving, misplaced, mixed-up, mortified, nervous, nervy, nettled, neurasthenic, neurotic, nuts, off the track, on tenterhooks, on the fritz, out of countenance, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, overanxious, overapprehensive, paranoiac, paranoid, peeved, perplexed, perturbed, phobic, piqued, provoked, psychasthenic, psychoneurotic, psychopathic, psychotic, put-out, put-upon, rattled, resentful, restless, riled, roiled, roily, ruffled, schiz, schizoid, schizophrenic, schizy, screwy, shaken, shaken up, shook, shuffled, solicitous, stirred up, strained, suspenseful, tense, troubled, troublous, turbid, turbulent, turned around, unbalanced, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unsettled, upset, vexed, without a clue, worried, zealous