unsettling

English

Adjective

unsettling (comparative more unsettling, superlative most unsettling)

1. That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
   • April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair‎^[1]:

     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 […]

     adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books

Translations

That makes one troubled or uneasy

• Catalan: inquietant (ca)
• Dutch: verontrustend (nl), zorgwekkend (nl)
• French: dérangeant (fr), inquiétant (fr)
• German: beunruhigend (de)
• Hungarian: felkavaró (hu)
• Ido: desquietiganta (io)
• Italian: inquietante (it), spiazzante (it)
• Russian: тревожащий (ru) (trevožaščij)
• Spanish: inquietante

Verb

unsettling

1. present participle and gerund of unsettle

Noun

unsettling (plural unsettlings)

1. The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
   • 2013, Krishna Sen, Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia, page 19:

     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.