unsettling

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Experts say the shutdown will actually make it a great time to buy a car, yet still unsettling is the price paid to get to this point.

View all »
Definitions (9)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. transitive verb To displace from a settled condition; disrupt.
  2. transitive verb To make uneasy; disturb.
  3. intransitive verb To become unsettled.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (44)

  • Which is more unsettling, the grammatical slip or the substance? —  Blogrunner
  • It is a bit unsettling, at first, to think of Apple as a control freak, because it is completely at odds with their corporate image. —  doggdot.us
  • There's also this unsettling, albeit true quote: "Given the state of the world we're in, the things I'm learning working on the largest bankruptcy in history are a set of skills that could be marketable for the foreseeable future." related, news the Financial Times has it that Lehman creditors could receive stock in lieu of cash: —  Dealbreaker
  • Fans should find the last 50 pages both heartfelt and a little unsettling, and will doubtless be left hoping that First End is also not the last. —  Anime News Network
  • The trip to and from school is the most unsettling, as most of the Israelis who have been killed by rockets - 28 in the past eight years - were in an unprotected area. —  CAMERA Snapshots
More examples »
 

Tags

unsettling hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 34 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the same contextWord Family

unsettling:   unsettled ·  unsettle
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a month.

Recently looked up

strata · defeatist · good-will · ill-treating · slave

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

be careful! the razor is razor-sharp! · minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread · beauregard · unicycle hockey