| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To puzzle, confuse, bemuse, disorientate or fuddle.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To disquiet, disturb, perturb, unsettle or disarrange.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb discomfit.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (discomfit) | 1. Cause to lose one's composure.[Wordnet]. 2. To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.[Websters]. 3. To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: discomfiting, discomfited, discomfits, discomfiter, discomfiters, discomfitingly and discomfitedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being humiliating or mortifying.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being shattering or smashing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being irritating or offending. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being vexing or annoying. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being overwhelming, stunning or confounding. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being alarming or frightening.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. | Top | |
Date "DISCOMFITING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DISCOMFITING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Routing; defeating.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of discomfit. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
