unsettling
adjectivenounverbattested in dialogue
That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
adjective
- 1
That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt[…]
noun
- 1
The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
A farmer in Hampshire was sorely distressed by the unsettling of his barn. However straightly over-night he laid his sheaves on the threshing-floor for the application of the morning's flail, when morning came, all was topsy-turvy, higgledy-piggledy, though the door remained locked, and there was no sign whatever of irregular entry.
But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.
verb
- 1
Also a form of unsettlepresent participle and gerund of unsettle
Forms
- plural
- unsettlings
- comparative
- more unsettling
- superlative
- most unsettling
unsettling · That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
unsolved · Not yet solved.unspeakable · Incapable of being spoken or uttered.unstable · Not stable.