[ adj ] having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion <adj.all> the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to handlooked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted
Disconcert \Dis`con*cert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disconcerted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disconcerting}.] [Pref. dis- + concert: cf. OF. desconcerter, F. d['e]concerter.] 1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.
The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. --Thackeray.
Syn: To discompose; derange; ruffle; confuse; disturb; defeat; frustrate.
He disconcerted his Hanoi hosts by insisting on attending Mass, even though he belongs to a Presbyterian church back home.
A newcomer to the computer industry, he is disconcerted by the interest that IBM attracts.
Isn't it more plausible to suggest that his was the disconcerted yelp of a man finding a cover-up unraveling and the cat already halfway out of the bag?
His journey takes him through the Bible Belt, where he is clearly disconcerted in the presence of plain old-time religion untainted by political activism.
No wonder that the artists of the Independants, with whom he showed the Baignade in 1885, should be disconcerted by what seemed so blatant a shift of principle and practice.