Disturbing
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Disturbing adjective – Causing worry or anxiety. Usage example: a disturbing trend in the nation's energy consumption
Terrible and disturbing are semantically related in distressing topic. In some cases you can use "Terrible" instead an adjective "Disturbing".
Nearby Words: disturb, disturbed, disturbance, disturbingly, disturber
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Terrible
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Terrible adjective – Causing fear. Usage example: a terrible nightmare that woke me up
Disturbing and terrible are semantically related in bad topic. Sometimes you can use "Disturbing" instead an adjective "Terrible", if it concerns topics such as distressing.
Nearby Words: terribly, terrify, terror
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We also learn that Blackjack's firing of Folly has awakened something terrible within the Core, and meet a group of ponies who hum the disturbing tune from Blackjack's Bad Future nightmare.
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In Calvin and Hobbes Calvin finds some of their reports "very disturbing" — where's all the terrible stuff he's supposed to be seeing?
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The violence became more disturbing, torture and mutilation showed up more often, Tron's terrible past became more apparent, and Beck's uprising continued to fail.
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Terrible and Disturbing. (2016). Retrieved 2020, February 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/disturbing/terrible
Disturbing & Terrible. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Feb. 2020. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/disturbing/terrible>.
Terrible or Disturbing. 2016. Accessed February 28, 2020. https://thesaurus.plus/related/disturbing/terrible.
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