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Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
Tom Hayden

Meaning of "unsettling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNSETTLING

unsettling  [ʌnˈsɛtəlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNSETTLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unsettling is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNSETTLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unsettling in the English dictionary

The definition of unsettling in the dictionary is if you describe something as unsettling, you mean that it makes you feel rather worried or uncertain.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNSETTLING


bitterling
ˈbɪtəlɪŋ
cycling
ˈsaɪk əlɪŋ
daughterling
ˈdɔːtəlɪŋ
dismantling
dɪsˈmæntəlɪŋ
enabling
ɪnˈeɪbəlɪŋ
fosterling
ˈfɒstəlɪŋ
hosteling
ˈhɒstəlɪŋ
hostelling
ˈhɒstəlɪŋ
littling
ˈlɪtəlɪŋ
modeling
ˈmɒdəlɪŋ
modelling
ˈmɒdəlɪŋ
pistolling
ˈpɪstəlɪŋ
remodeling
ˌriːˈmɒdəlɪŋ
saber-rattling
ˈseɪbə ˈrætəlɪŋ
scatterling
ˈskætəlɪŋ
subtotalling
ˈsʌbtəʊtəlɪŋ
throttling
ˈθrɒtəlɪŋ
travelling
ˈtrævəlɪŋ
uptitling
ʌpˈtaɪtəlɪŋ
wine-bottling
ˈwaɪnˌbɒtəlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNSETTLING

unseparated
unsepulchred
unserious
unseriousness
unserved
unserviceable
unset
unsettle
unsettled
unsettledly
unsettledness
unsettlement
unsettlingly
unsevered
unsew
unsex
unsexed
unsexist
unsexual
unsexy

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNSETTLING

arm wrestling
bristling
bustling
calling
castling
catling
fettling
footling
Graeco-Roman wrestling
mantling
nestling
rattling
rustling
sabre-rattling
scantling
startling
subtitling
sumo wrestling
whistling
whitling
wrestling

Synonyms and antonyms of unsettling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNSETTLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unsettling» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unsettling

Translation of «unsettling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNSETTLING

Find out the translation of unsettling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unsettling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unsettling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

令人担忧的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

perturbador
570 millions of speakers

English

unsettling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परेशान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مقلق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тревожным
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inquietador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্থানান্তর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

perturbant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengganggu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

beunruhigend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

動揺させる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

심란하게 하는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unsettling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đáng lo ngại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குலைக்கின்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्थिर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tedirgin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inquietante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niepokojące
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тривожним
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tulburător
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνταρακτική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onthutsende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oroande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

foruroligende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unsettling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNSETTLING»

The term «unsettling» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.157 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNSETTLING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unsettling

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10 QUOTES WITH «UNSETTLING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unsettling.
1
Matt Berninger
Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.
2
Linda Blair
To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.
3
Marlon Brando
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
4
Bill Bryson
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
5
Tom Chatfield
For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.
6
Mark Z. Danielewski
'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.
7
Kit Harington
The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.
8
Tom Hayden
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
9
Alex Karpovsky
If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.
10
Patrice Leconte
You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNSETTLING»

Discover the use of unsettling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unsettling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Homecomings: Unsettling Paths of Return
Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back to places of origin.
Fran Markowitz, Anders H. Stefansson, 2004
2
Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic ...
Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women¿s Fiction combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American ...
Stella Bolaki, 2011
3
Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender, Memory
Unsettling Partitions reinterprets the silences found in women?s accounts of sectarian violence that accompanied Partition as a sign of their inability to find a language to articulate their experience without invoking metaphors of purity ...
Jill Didur, 2006
4
Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi
This richly detailed ethnographic work tells the story of a period of deep civil unrest in India .
Emma Tarlo, 2003
5
Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology
"Hillman's groundbreaking study enables both serious and casual film students to approach these works with sharpened vision and improved hearing.
Roger Hillman, 2005
6
Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, ...
Settlers must relinquish the persistent myth ofthemselves as peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy of asociety that has stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous experience.A compassionate call to action, this powerful book ...
Paulette Regan, 2010
7
Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky
Ultimately, the book seeks to initiate a dialogue between scholars of music, literature, and performance by addressing questions raised in each field in a manner that influences them all.
David J. Levin, 2008
8
Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property
Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city.
Nicholas K. Blomley, 2004
9
Unsettling Australia: Readings in Australian Cultural History
This Book Is A Critical Intervention Into Debates On Australia S Cultural History.
Lars Jensen, 2005
10
Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s ...
Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion—the use of postcolonial theories—relatively new to the field of children’s literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized ...
Clare Bradford, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNSETTLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unsettling is used in the context of the following news items.
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Editorial: Unsettling questions remain about fatal air crash
The investigation leaves unsettling questions. Though the report rules out engine trouble or “catastrophic structural failures” in the jet on Aug. 27, 2014, it can ... «The Recorder, Jul 15»
2
The Unsettling, Anti-Science Certitude on Global Warming
In other words, the science is unsettled—to say that we have it all wrapped up is itself a form of denial. The essence of scientific inquiry is the assumption that ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
'Unsettling' rise in anti-semitic incidents in Britain this year
LONDON — There has been an "unsettling" rise in the number of anti-semitic incidents occurring in Britain so far this year, according to new figures released by ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
4
The Strange, Unsettling Fiction of James Purdy
As genuinely strange, unsettling, and indelible as these books are, it seems unlikely that their republication will gain Purdy, who died in 2009, the kind of ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
5
China's Unsettling Stock Market Collapse
In North America, meanwhile, the governor of Puerto Rico claimed last week that the island would be unable to pay off its debts, raising unsettling questions ... «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
6
Unsettling 'Bomb Site' Appears In Camberwell Gallery
We love a good piece of large scale immersive installation art, so were excited to see what Thomas Hirschhorn would do with the main space at Camberwell's ... «Londonist, Jul 15»
7
China's Unsettling Stock Market Boom
Something strange is going on in the Chinese stock market. Even as the country's economy has slowed, stocks have surged about 147 percent in the last 12 ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
8
Here's the Unsettling Truth About the Retirement Crisis
It's late spring, and retirement surveys are falling like so many cherry blossoms from the trees. Some of the results are profoundly grim, especially for Gen Xers. «TIME, Jun 15»
9
Mid-north CFS officer warns members considering quitting amid …
"I don't wish to deny or diminish that it has been unsettling but certainly people see reform and continuous improvement as an important thing, so I think that ... «ABC Local, May 15»
10
Zhu Tian wins Catlin Art Prize for 'unsettling' works
The judges said she took viewers on a "compelling and unsettling journey". Zhu Tian - Dirty (detail) Zhu Tian's Dirty was said to explore themes of 'power, ... «BBC News, May 15»

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