1. Emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships
   "The disturbed teenager required counselling";
   - maladjusted
    
2. Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
   "lapsed into disturbed sleep";
   - disquieted, distressed, upset, worried, cut up [informal]
    
3. Affected with madness or insanity
   "The disturbed patient required constant supervision";
   - brainsick [archaic], crazy [informal], demented, mad, unbalanced, unhinged
    
4. Having the place or position changed
   "the disturbed books and papers on her desk"; "disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed"

1. Cause profound worry; make to feel uncomfortable or anxious
   "The strange noises disturbed her sleep";
   - upset, trouble
    
2. Destroy the peace or tranquility of
   "Don't disturb me when I'm reading";
   - interrupt
    
3. Change the arrangement or position of
   "The earthquake disturbed the careful arrangement of items";
   - agitate, shake up, stir up, raise up
    
4. Tamper with
   "Don't disturb my CDs!";
   - touch
    
5. Damage as if by shaking or jarring
   "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!"

See also: disarranged, insane, neurotic, psychoneurotic, troubled

Type of: act, affect, alter, change, damage, displace, impress, modify, move, strike

Encyclopedia: Disturbed