Unsettling synonyms

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disquieting
Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy
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troublesome
The definition of troublesome is someone or something that causes problems or that is annoying or difficult.
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distracting
To distract is defined as to draw someone's attention away from something and on to something else.
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disruptive
Radically reconfiguring a particular field of business, as by implementing new technologies or a more competitive business model:
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upsetting
That causes or cause upset.
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displacing
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
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discomposing
To disturb the calm or poise of; fluster; disconcert
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bothering
Bother is defined as annoy, worry, or cause discomfort.
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agitating
To stir up or shake up
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frightening (related)
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surreal (related)
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depressing (related)
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nightmarish (related)
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distressful
The definition of distressful is something that causes pain, unhappiness, anxiety or fear.
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intrusive
The definition of intrusive is someone or something that invades personal space, that becomes too involved or that comes too close without being invited.
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perturbing
Troubling to the mind or emotions
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troublous
Causing trouble; troublesome.
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worrisome
Said of a person: inclined to worry.
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happy (related)
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.
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enervating
Enervate is defined as to weaken or take away physical, mental or moral strength.
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unnerving
Unnerve is defined as to cause fear or loss of confidence.
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fazing
Faze is defined as to disturb someone.
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rattling
(Informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
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tossing
To get rid of; throw away; discard
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shaking
To shake hands:
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ruffling
To disturb, irritate, or annoy
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rocking
To thrill or excite, especially with rock music
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flustering
(By extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
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flurrying
To confuse; agitate
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turning
To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
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disordering
To upset the normal functions or health of
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deranging
To cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state
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disorganizing
To disrupt or break up the order, arrangement, or system of; throw into confusion or disorder
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tumbling
To spill, roll out, or emerge in confusion or disorder:
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muddling
Muddle is defined as to mix up, confuse or think in a confused way, or to mix up a drink.
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ordering (antonym)
To request to be supplied with:
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balancing (antonym)
(Dancing) To balance partners
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settling (antonym)
To put into order; arrange as desired:
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calming (related)
To calm means to soothe and pacify someone to make him free of stress, or to become free of stress yourself.
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disconcert (related)
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unsatisfy (related)
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unhinge (related)
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intriguing (related)
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unnerve (related)
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overwrought (related)
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pain (related)
Troubling to the mind or emotions
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disarranging
To undo the order or arrangement of; make less neat; disorder
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jumbling
To be mixed in a confused way:
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disrupting
To throw into confusion or disorder:
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composing (antonym)
To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
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Unsettling Sentence Examples

  • She had the unsettling feeling that he was about to disappear from her life forever.

  • The idea of talking to her again was unsettling enough, but to tell her something like this?

  • It was unsettling to think he had concealed an entire family and lifestyle from her, but this was different.

  • But when we have done our worst in unsettling them, we come to an ultimate point in the fact that it is we who are doubting, we who are thinking.

  • In a ramshackle old house the wind becomes a constant, unsettling moan beyond the walls.

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