disorienting
Adjective
Meaning
causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings
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Examples
making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting
a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting
As historian Bradford W. Wright describes, Steve Ditko contributed some of his most surrealistic work to the comic book and gave it a disorienting, hallucinogenic quality.
A lifetime raised in a culture prepared to go to war over immorality made it especially disorienting when Donald Trump rode down a golden escalator into the presidential campaign, and captured of the white evangelical vote.
Burke questions the practicality of some of these views, but concludes that maintaining the statu quo of inquiry and development poses hazards of its own, such as a disorienting rate of change and the depletion of our planet's resources.
For most middle-class city dwellers, brought up on the image of impoverished, rustic farmers, the sight of the Punjabi cultivator can be somewhat disorienting.