Definition of Perturbed

1. Adjective. Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term).

Exact synonyms: Flustered, Hot And Bothered, Rattled
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Discomposed

Definition of Perturbed

1. a. Agitated; disturbed; troubled.

Definition of Perturbed

1. Verb. (past of ''perturb'') ¹

2. Adjective. Disturbed; flustered. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perturbed

1. perturb [v] - See also: perturb

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perturbed

perturbances
perturbate
perturbated
perturbates
perturbating
perturbation
perturbational
perturbations
perturbative
perturbatively
perturbativity
perturbator
perturbators
perturbatour
perturbatours
perturbed (current term)
perturber
perturbers
perturbing
perturbingly
perturbs
pertusate
pertuse
pertused
pertusion
pertusions
pertussal
pertusses
pertussis
pertussis-like syndrome

Literary usage of Perturbed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Statistics, Probability, and Game Theory: Papers in Honor of David Blackwell by David Blackwell, Thomas Shelburne Ferguson, Lloyd S. Shapley, James B. MacQueen (1996)
"Our results are obtained via an embedding of this combinatorial optimization problem in a suitably perturbed Markov decision process. ..."

2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"It seemed to me then like a person with two natures uneasily housed in one perturbed body. These two natures were startlingly different. ..."

3. Scientific Papers by George Howard Darwin, Francis Darwin, Ernest William Brown (1908)
"... to make it applicable to the several problems to be considered. II. SECULAR CHANGES IN THE INCLINATION OF THE ORBIT OF A SATELLITE. § 5. The perturbed ..."

4. Proceedings of the Berkeley-Ames Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Control by L. R. Hunt, Clyde Martin (1984)
"THE MELNIKOV TECHNIQUE AND ARNOLD DIFFUSION FOR A CLASS OF perturbed DISSIPATIVE SYSTEMS Fathi NA Salam ABSTRACT. This work presents a slight extension to ..."

5. A Short History of Italy: (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1905)
"... CHAPTER XXXVI perturbed INACTIVITY (1821-1847) AFTER 1821 followed ten years of outward repose. Times were hard for lovers of independence, ..."

6. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"In the midst of this perturbed state of affairs in camp, and while the day of final separation was supposed to be near at hand, the following anonymous ..."

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