Usually means: Causing discomfort or unease emotionally.
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  1. unsettling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unsettling: Merriam-Webster
  3. unsettling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unsettling: Vocabulary.com
  5. Unsettling, unsettling: Wordnik
  6. unsettling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. unsettling: Wiktionary
  8. unsettling: Dictionary.com
  9. unsettling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. unsettling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. unsettling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. unsettling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unsettling: Legal dictionary

(Note: See unsettle as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
noun:  The weakening of some previously established system or norm.

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