"confronting" meaning in English

See confronting in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more confronting [comparative], most confronting [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} confronting (comparative more confronting, superlative most confronting)
  1. Causing distress; upsetting. Translations (causing distress; upsetting): 令人心煩意亂的 (Chinese Mandarin), 令人心烦意乱的 (lìngrén xīnfányìluàn de) (Chinese Mandarin), painostava (Finnish), huolestuttava (Finnish), desolador (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-confronting-en-adj-vdTCBeOs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 80 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 87 13

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} confronting
  1. present participle and gerund of confront Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: confront
    Sense id: en-confronting-en-verb-EurA4T4y
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          "sense": "causing distress; upsetting",
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          "sense": "causing distress; upsetting",
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          "sense": "causing distress; upsetting",
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