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单词 disquieting
释义
disquieting
adjective
formal
uk
/dɪˈskwaɪə.tɪŋ/us
/dɪˈskwaɪə.t̬ɪŋ/
causingworry:
令人焦虑的，使人不安的，让人担心的
The disquietingsituationbetween these twoneighbouringcountrieslooksas if it willcontinue.这两个相邻国家间令人担忧的局势看起来仍将持续下去。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Causing anxiety and worry
  • alarming
  • alarmingly
  • bite
  • catch up withsomeone
  • come back/home to roostidiom
  • disturb
  • dread
  • frightensomeone/somethingaway/off
  • get/go beyond a jokeidiom
  • givesomeonethe jimjamsidiom
  • givesomeonethe jittersidiom
  • gnaw
  • rattle
  • roost
  • stressful
  • suspenseful
  • swatting
  • tense
  • tenseness
  • trigger
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(Definition ofdisquietingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

disquieting| American Dictionary

disquieting
adjective
us
/dɪsˈkwɑɪ·ɪ·t̬ɪŋ/
causinganxiety;worrying:
Thesheersizeoftheirarmedforcesis a disquietingfactorforneighboringcountries.
(Definition ofdisquietingfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdisquieting

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If this is true, it would be anotherdisquietingdemonstration of the strength of nationalism and the idea of the nation-state.
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A number of otherdisquietingfactors, both social economic and ideological, accumulated to weaken the drive for greater equality.
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The potential for disarticulation between democracy at the grassroots and for the nation remainsdisquieting.
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Despite these problems, the figures above show adisquietingsituation that calls for united and coordinated efforts to fight the disease.
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A final, more tentative, theme in that same capitalist press was that the affair containeddisquietingintimations of a challenge or threat to civilization itself.
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This is adisquietingthought when one considers how many judgements and assessments are based on verbal responses.
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Its doom-laden atmosphere does not preclude contemplative passages, but the implacability of its gradual build-up into a massive climax is memorablydisquieting.
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During the early years of the transactional model, there was always adisquietingmurmur questioning the possibility of operationalizing such a model.
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It is an elegant, and mostdisquieting, analysis.
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In many countries the rate of increase in the population is profoundlydisquietingand to ban all pesticides is now out of the question.
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Adisquietingdevelopment that has accompanied the fall in numbers of children hospitalized is the increase in placements in residential correctional facilities.
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This is no mere drunken frolic, but a movement to thedisquietingambiguities of 'serious comedy'.
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This ambiguity is relevant to the debate on one of the mostdisquietingdimensions of nationalism : the tension between its two souls, civic voluntarism and ethnic supremacism.
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As if these longstanding threats to the well-being of children were not sufficientlydisquieting, more recent social changes have produced issues of equal or even greater concern.
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An examination of the footnotes in the search of further evidence also yields somedisquietingresults : 284 notes are not many for a work of this scope and size.
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