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Something disconcerting makes you feel slightly confused, , or worried. The word describes the thing that does it, not the person who feels it: a disconcerting smile, a disconcerting silence, a disconcerting fact. The feeling is that the world is a little out of true — not , but not sitting right. It is quite common in careful speech and writing, and a little formal for very casual talk. Though actually, people stretch it: they will call a habit or a piece of news disconcerting when it only nags at them, not when it truly throws them.
令人困窘的、讓人發慌的、令人不安的
組成From disconcert + -ing: the form that describes what causes the feeling.
同家族的字
- disconcertthe verb this adjective is built from
- disconcertedhow the person on the receiving end feels
- disconcertinglythe adverb built from this word
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disconcertingadj詞源 1/ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtɪŋ/
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Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm.
- Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting.
- "You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting."
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。