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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 “expectation gap,” as it is known, can be unsettling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

If the backrooms are a metaphor for the internet, it’s certainly an unsettling one.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 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

I suppose this is expected, but it is also unsettling.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga