disturbed
/dɪˈstəːbd
/adjective
1Having had the normal pattern or functioning disrupted: disturbed sleep...
- Other symptoms that are common include sensitivity to light, noise and smell; disturbed sleep patterns and persistent headaches.
- Obstruction to breathing causes snoring and disturbed sleep patterns.
- They also showed that after he drank alcohol his sleep pattern was disturbed.
Synonyms
disrupted, interrupted, fitful, disconnected, discontinuous, intermittent, fragmentary, broken
2Having or resulting from emotional and mental problems: the treatment of disturbed children disturbed behaviour...
- A disturbed mental state will often result in an unhappy and ineffective athlete which alone usually indicates overtraining.
- Internal reliability of the CDI has been demonstrated with both normal and emotionally disturbed children.
- The chaotic design of the robe suggests Bruno's disturbed mental state and the anarchy he will impose upon Guy's life.
Synonyms
troubled, distressed, unsettled, upset, distraught;
unbalanced, unstable, disordered, dysfunctional, maladjusted, ill-adjusted;
neurotic, emotionally confused, unhinged
informal screwed up, mixed up, messed up, hung up
- have (or get) a foot in the door
- have (or get) a leg-up on
- have (or get) itchy feet
- have (or get)one's snout (or nose) in the trough
- have (or get) one's snout (or nose) in the trough
- have (or get) someone/thing taped
- have (or get) something down to a fine art
- have (or give) it large
- have (or have grown) whiskers
- have (or hold) no terrors for someone
- have (or hold) someone in the palm of one's hand
- have (or keep) an ear to the ground
- have (or keep) one's eye on
- have (or keep) one's finger on the pulse
- have (or keep) one's (or both) feet on the ground
- have (or keep) one's wits about one
- have (or know) all the answers
- have (or put) one's heart in
- have (or put) someone/thing down as
- have (or take) a butcher's
- have (or take) a leak
- have (or take) a pop at
- have (or throw) a fit
- have (or want) no truck with
- have (or with) an eye to