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discomfiting

/dis-kuhm-fit/US // dɪsˈkʌm fɪt //UK // (dɪsˈkʌmfɪt) //

令人不快的,令人不安的,令人不快,让人不快的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
    • : to frustrate the plans of; thwart; foil.
    • : Archaic. to defeat utterly; rout: The army was discomfited in every battle.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. rout; defeat.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdefeat, frustrate; confuse
Antonyms

Examples

  • For my own sanity—as morally discomfiting as it is—I'm planning to play along.

  • While comparisons are obvious, Ryan's use of the discomfiting capital-T "they" got me thinking: who exactly were "they"?

  • Most of the time, subtle cues—a flag, for instance—have a powerful, discomfiting pull on our behavior.

  • The GOP debates have already been entertaining, unpredictable, and discomfiting for the candidates.

  • The silence that followed this non-committal remark was most discomfiting.

  • The idea of more was discomfiting, yet it was possible that this was only the first of a travelling company.

  • He attacks the duke's nephew, who was breaking many a lance and sorely discomfiting the Greeks.

  • No one being there, the goldsmith went elsewhere in search of his wife, leaving the scholar to a discomfiting solitude.

  • Eustace had no difficulty in justifying the customs of Luxeuil, and in discomfiting the violence of his accuser.