discomposing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of discompose

comparative more discomposing · superlative most discomposing

1. Unsettling; tending to discompose

   The prospect was discomposing.

   1900, George MacDonald, Paul Faber, Surgeon

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   […] a death which overtook one galloping frantically over a desert was wholly irregular and discomposing.

   1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Tragedy of The Korosko

   By that time the fellow had managed to tug and jerk his hat clear of his head, and advanced with slight bows at Ruthvel, who told me the sight was so discomposing that for some time he listened, quite unable to make out what that apparition wanted.

   1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 5, in Lord Jim

   The news has had a decidedly discomposing effect already.

   1917, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152. January 17, 1917