disturbed meaning and definition

DISTURBED adjective

Definition of disturbed (adjective)

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"
   • synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried
3. emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships
   • synonyms: maladjusted
4. affected with madness or insanity
   • "a man who had gone mad"
   • synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged