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perturbed
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Adjective perturbed has 1 sense
- perturbed(s = adj.all) flustered, hot and bothered, rattled - thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term); Array
THESAURUS
perturbed
abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, agitated, all-overish, amiss, annoyed, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, askew, astray, at sea, awry, balled-up, beset, bewildered, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chaotic, chapfallen, clueless, cockeyed, concerned, confused, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, dismayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, excited, fearful, feverish, fidgety, flurried, flustered, fluttered, foreboding, fussed, guessing, harassed, haywire, hung up, 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, inconvenienced, irked, jittery, jumbled, jumpy, lost, mazed, misgiving, misplaced, mixed-up, mortified, nervous, nervy, 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, perplexed, plagued, put to it, put-out, put-upon, puzzled, rattled, restless, roily, ruffled, shaken, shaken up, shook, shuffled, solicitous, sore beset, stirred up, strained, suspenseful, tense, troubled, troublous, turbid, turbulent, turned around, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unsettled, upset, vexed, without a clue, worried, zealous
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