| 单词 | disorienting |
| 释义 | disorienting (once / 57376 pages) adj Disorienting things make you feel confused. It's disorienting each time you step out of a subway station in a big city — it takes a minute to get your bearings and figure out which direction to walk. Waking up from the anesthetic after having your wisdom teeth removed is very disorienting, and a disorienting first day at a new school shouldn't be surprising. The adjective disorienting comes from disorient, or "make someone lose their sense of direction," which has a French source, désorienter, "to cause to lose one's bearings," or literally, "to turn from the east." WORD FAMILYdisorienting: disorientingly+/disorient: disorientation, disoriented, disorienting, disorients/disorientation: disorientations/orient: disorient, oriental, orientated, orientation, oriented, orienting, orients, reorient/oriental: orientalise, orientalism, orientalist, orientalize, orientally/orientalise: orientalised, orientalising/orientalism: orientalisms/orientalist: orientalists/orientalize: orientalized, orientalizing/orientation: orientations/oriented: unoriented/reorient: reorientation, reoriented, reorienting USAGE EXAMPLESFacing this disorienting president-elect, the paper argued, China should “stay steady on its feet, keep a good grasp of developments, calmly respond, and that’s it.” Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) They think that it is painful, disorienting, something that needs to be overcome. Nature(Dec 13, 2016) “Back then I think it was disorienting for white people to hear that,” she says. Los Angeles Times(Dec 02, 2016) adj causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting Syn|Ant unoriented not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained confusingcausing confusion or disorientation estrangingmaking one feel out of place or alienated stunningcausing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility stupefyingmaking physically stupid or dull or insensible orientating, orienting positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually orientated, orientedadjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination aligning, positioningcausing to fall into line or into position dimensioningindicating or determining size and position in space familiarising, familiarizingserving to make familiar homingorienting or directing homeward or to a destination |
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