Causing embarrassment, confusion, or unease; disturbing or unsettling.
Present participle of discomfit, formed with -ing; functions as both a verb form (ongoing action) and adjective (describing something with the quality of discomfiting).
The -ing form is English's most versatile grammatical ending — it can be a verb, adjective, noun, or preposition depending on context, which is why 'a discomfiting situation' uses it as an adjective while 'stop discomfiting me' uses it as a verb.
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