unsettling

Speech parts

1. unsettling - Noun

2. unsettling - Adjective

3. unsettling - Verb

Meaning

unsettling (comparative more unsettling, superlative most unsettling)

That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

unsettling

present participle of unsettle

unsettling (plural unsettlings)

The weakening of some previously established system or norm.

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Examples

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. Marlon Brando

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies. Stephen King

To the young, what can be more disturbing, what more unsettling and tantalizing, than the play of vague suspicions? The fancy, ceasing to wander in the void, concentrates upon a definite aim, and luxuriates in the febrile pleasures of the chase. Stefan Zweig

. . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, I'm okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, it's unsettling. Christopher Moore (author)

The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though. Kit Harington

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