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worried, bothered, agitated, anxious, concerned, apprehensive,
nervous: He's disturbed that Marie didn't come home last night.
2 psychoneurotic, neurotic, unbalanced, psychopathic, psychotic,
maladjusted, mad, insane, out of one's mind, depressed, Colloq
crazy, unable to cope, Brit bonkers, Slang nuts, screwy, batty,
off one's rocker, off the deep end, messed-up, screwed-up: She
looks after her sister, who is disturbed.
disturbing
adj. upsetting, off-putting, perturbing, troubling, unsettling,
worrying, disconcerting, disquieting, alarming, distressing:
There is disturbing news from the front.
disused adj. abandoned, neglected, unused; discontinued, obsolete,
archaic: We had to sleep in a disused railway carriage.
diurnal adj. daily, circadian; day-to-day, regular, everyday,
quotidian; daytime: Jet lag is a disturbance of the body's
diurnal rhythms. Are these animals nocturnal or diurnal?
dive v. 1 plunge, nosedive, sound, descend, dip, submerge, go under,
sink; jump, leap, duck; swoop, plummet: The submarine dived at
once.
--n. 2 plunge, nosedive: The plane went into a dive. 3 bar,
saloon, nightclub, bistro, club, Colloq nightspot, Slang joint,
US dump, honky-tonk, juke-joint: He met the woman in a dive in
Limehouse.
diverge v. 1 separate, radiate, spread (apart), divide, subdivide,
fork, branch (off or out), ramify, split: The roads diverge
further on. 2 deviate, turn aside or away, wander, digress,
stray, depart, drift, divagate: Our policy diverges from that
set up by the committee.
divergent adj. differing, different, dissimilar, disparate, variant,
separate, diverging, disagreeing, conflicting, discrepant:
There are divergent theories about the origin of the universe.
divers adj. various, several, sundry; miscellaneous, multifarious,
manifold, varied, assorted, variegated, differing, different;
some, numerous, many: We have the divers statements of the
witnesses.