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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

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It started with a scary earthquake near Reno, then more unsettling shaking near Las Vegas.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

This unsettling idea is what defines the Boltzmann brain hypothesis.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

It was all inspired by her first experience of falling in love – an experience that was simultaneously thrilling and unsettling.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

The air in Springfield, Ohio carries an unsettling quality these days.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

The idiocy of this question, its unsettling logic, made Flora suddenly grateful for her father.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo

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