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unsettling

ADJECTIVE

disturbing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

alarming creepy depressing disconcerting discouraging disquieting distressing frightening ominous painful perplexing startling troubling unpleasant worrisome worrying

STRONG

aggravating agitating annoying discommoding discomposing dismaying embarrassing foreboding harassing impeding irritating perturbing provoking threatening trying upsetting vexing

WEAK

bothersome burdensome consequential difficult disagreeable discomforting disruptive distressful gloomy hard inconvenient intrusive irksome laborious onerous pessimistic prophetic severe sinister tiresome toilsome troublesome troublous uncertain wearisome

Antonyms

STRONGEST

auspicious comforting delightful encouraging good happy pleasant pleasing

Example Sentences

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The term, which describes an unsettling, empty place lacking signs of life, has now become an object of fascination among young people online.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Limbo doesn’t have a ZIP code, but it’s an awfully unsettling place to live.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026

It could be an empty office block, a hallway or a corridor - unsettling between-zones.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

When one, an unsettling nine-minute experiment about a warren of dingy carpets, taffy-yellow walls and gridded drop ceilings clicked with 78 million viewers, he made sequels.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Looking out into the forest was like searching someone’s dreams, disorienting and unsettling, but inside the van, everything was sharp.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

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