0 to make someone feel suddenly uncertain and worried: --
The whole experience had disconcerted him.
1 to make someone feel suddenly uncertain or worried: --
He was disconcerted by all the attention he was getting.
This is disconcerting given the ageing of the population.
What this gains in concentration of ideas, it loses in overall shape: one has to make disconcerting chronological leaps back and forth between sections.
One statement which the non-specialist finds disconcerting is that clear sparkling water is often suggestive of contamination by organic material.
The ordering of the chapters in this section might be a bit disconcerting for any reader approaching this discipline for the first time.
This is particularly disconcerting given that the dustjacket claims that the work ' ' defies the standard narratives.
It does appear from the depiction of the data that faster pulsars have been discovered more recently, but the trend is not disconcerting.
All this results in a book that is brilliant, intimidating, original, disconnected, often hilarious, intentionally disconcerting, and sometimes awkwardly personal.
This can be quite disconcerting for an experienced player.