Usually means: Causing discomfort or unease emotionally.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. unsettling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unsettling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. unsettling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Unsettling, unsettling: Wordnik
  5. unsettling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. unsettling: Wiktionary
  7. unsettling: Dictionary.com
  8. unsettling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. unsettling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. unsettling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. unsettling: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unsettling: Legal dictionary

(Note: See unsettle as well.)

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

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