English

Verb

discomfiting

1. present participle of discomfit

Adjective

discomfiting ‎(comparative more discomfiting, superlative most discomfiting)

1. Tending to discomfit.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

     Streaker, the housemaid, too, had an attribute of a most discomfiting nature. I am unable to say whether she was of an usually lymphatic temperament, or what else was the matter with her, but this young woman became a mere Distillery for the production of the largest and most transparent tears I ever met with.