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

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unsettling

Pyongyang sent trash-filled balloons and broadcast unsettling noises across the border during the administration of Lee's hawkish predecessor, Yoon Suk Yeol.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

"Everything is unsettling and I am angry at how we are treated," says Anaïs, who is now 42 years old.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Miller has been racking up a series of unsettling on-camera appearances in which his attempts at defending himself instead reveal a deep well of dishonesty.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

Visitors are told, “Our world today grows out of that unsettling history.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

My stomach turns, unsettling my supper so that I have to swallow hard to keep it down.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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