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Adjective: disconcerting  `dis-kun'sur-ting
  1. Causing an emotional disturbance
    "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"
    - upsetting
Verb: disconcert  `dis-kun'surt
  1. Cause to feel embarrassment
    "The constant attention of the young man disconcerted her"
    - confuse, flurry, put off
     
  2. Cause to lose one's composure
    - upset, discompose, untune, discomfit

See also: disconcertingly, disconcertment, displeasing

Type of: abash, arouse, elicit, embarrass, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise

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