unsettling
/ənˈsɛtəlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
noun
The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
Example Sentences
- "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[…]"
- "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."
- "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."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ənˈsɛtəlɪŋ/