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

Visiting teams can sometimes find the excitement around rugby league in Papua New Guinea unsettling.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The unsettling thing about the Axiom isn’t that its passengers are miserable.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

The Canadian comedian, writer and producer Fielder is famous for harnessing the power of awkwardness, cringe and deadpan wit to great, if unsettling, comedic effect.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

There are so many scary diseases out there that I had to wonder: Is there something about plague that is particularly unsettling?

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 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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