Dictionary

unsettling en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ənˈsɛtəlɪŋ/ (General-American)
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Meanings

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[…] April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:

Forms

Deriveds

unsettlingness · unsettlingly

Translations (17)

fr dérangeant (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · de beunruhigend (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · io desquietiganta (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · fr inquiétant (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · ru тревожащий (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · fi levottomuutta herättävä (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · es atemorizador (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · es inquietante (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · fi ahdistava (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · tr tedirgin edici (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · nl verontrustend (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · hu felkavaró (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · nl zorgwekkend (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · ca inquietant (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · it spiazzante (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · it inquietante (that makes one troubled or uneasy) · es perturbador (that makes one troubled or uneasy)

unsettling en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ənˈsɛtəlɪŋ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
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Meanings

1. The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
   • 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. 2013, Krishna Sen, Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia, page 19:
   • 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. 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 305:

Forms

unsettling en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ənˈsɛtəlɪŋ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
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Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of unsettle
   form of unsettle