verb
- Cause to feel embarrassment.
- usage: "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
- synonyms: confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off
- Cause to lose one's composure.
- synonyms: upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
adjective
- Causing an emotional disturbance.
- usage: "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
- synonyms: upsetting
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