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: April 11, 2024
\diss-KUM-fit\ verb
What It Means
To discomfit someone is to make them confused or upset. Discomfit is a formal synonym of the also formal (but slightly less so) disconcert.
// Jacob was discomfited by the new employee’s forward, probing questions.
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