disturbed

About 11.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.

   disturbed boy

2. adjective Extremely alarmed; shocked.
3. adjective Having been altered or changed.

   disturbed soil

4. verb simple past and past participle of disturb

Similar words

demented unhinged brainsick crazy mad insane neurotic sick psychoneurotic worried

Often followed by

by the and in him at children or her