1 mentally ill, especially because of very unhappy or shocking experiences:
a special school for emotionally disturbed children * His behaviour is deeply disturbed.
2 unhappy and full of bad or shocking experiences:
The killer had a disturbed family background.
3 very anxious and unhappy about sth:
I was deeply disturbed and depressed by the news.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for disturbed is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is disturbed a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, disturbed is tagged as adjective.
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