All unsettling synonyms
un·set·tle
U u adj unsettling
- demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- confusing — Something that is confusing makes it difficult for people to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- distressful — causing or involving distress: the distressful circumstances of poverty and sickness.
- disquieting — Archaic. uneasy; disquieted.
- disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
noun unsettling
- disorientation — to disorient.
- confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
adjective unsettling
- creepy — If you say that something or someone is creepy, you mean they make you feel very nervous or frightened.
- discomfiting — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- discommoding — to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
- jarring — to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- worrying — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- agitating — Present participle of agitate.
- wiggly — wiggling: a wiggly child.
- harassing — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- jouncy — Bumpy or bouncy.
- discomposing — Present participle of discompose.
- chilling — If you describe something as chilling, you mean it is frightening.
- queasy — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- jiggly — tending to jiggle or marked by a jiggling movement.
- impeding — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.