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järkyttävä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • disturbing adjective Causing worry, unease, or shock.
  • morbid adj Having an unhealthy interest in death, disease, or other disturbing subjects.
  • outrageous adj Shockingly excessive, unacceptable, or unjust.
  • shocking adj Extremely surprising, upsetting, or disturbing.

Senses

järkyttävä is used for these senses in English:

  • disturbing Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
  • morbid Grisly or gruesome.
  • outrageous Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative. [from 18th c.]
  • shocking Inspiring shock; startling.

morbid — full definition

  1. adj Having an unhealthy interest in death, disease, or other disturbing subjects.
  2. adj Relating to or caused by disease.

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