verb
definition
To make upset or uncomfortable
example
Don't unsettle the horses or they'll bolt.
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To bring into disorder or disarray
adjective
definition
Disturbed, upset.
example
I was unsettled by the sudden outburst, and since I didn't know what to do I just stood there, confused.
definition
Not in a steady condition, uncertain, subject to change.
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Not populated, having no settlers or other inhabitants.
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Unpaid.
example
We need to settle this bill; even if you think the charge is too high we can't just leave it unsettled.
Examples of unsettled in a Sentence
The sensations unsettled him, but he forced himself to turn away.
He hesitated, visibly unsettled by what she knew were her spinning silver-blue eyes.
His direct gaze left her unsettled once more.
She looked down, stomach unsettled by the distance.
The restless men with her were plainly unsettled by the situation.
It explained why he was so unsettled with this woman; she was intruding in his orderly place of refuge.
Things are unsettled around here.
She looked unsettled at the idea of leaving her lab and looked around, as if trying to figure out what to take.
This night could not end soon enough; everything about it unsettled him.
Rhyn opened a portal and walked through the cool shadow place. The shadow world felt … strange this time. He looked around, unsettled by the sensation that someone else was there. The black portal to Hell throbbed then dimmed, as if someone and come through.
Unsettled at her unusual weakness, she watched Sami's squat form fold with difficulty as he crouched beside her.
Taran accepted it, once again unsettled by the darkness clinging to the book.
Napier lived, too, not only in a wild country, which was in a lawless and unsettled state during most of his life, but also in a credulous and superstitious age.
The remainder of his life was somewhat unsettled, and he died at Regensburg on the 9th of January 1534.
The important silk industry, however, began to revive about 18go, and dairy farming is prosperous; but the condition of the vilayet is far less unsettled than that of Macedonia, owing partly to the preponderance of Moslems among the peasantry, and partly to the nearness of Constantinople, with its Western influences.
The effect of the unsettled policy of the Post Office until 1905 and of the difficulties created by the local authorities was that the National Telephone Company was never able to do its best to develop the enterprise on the most efficient lines.
With an exceptional range of information thus afforded him, he wrote the opening of his history in July 1849; but, finding himself still unsettled in his work, he decided in the spring of the following year to carry out a long projected visit to England.
Babylonia was politically unsettled, the representative of the Davidic dynasty had descendants; if Babylon was assured of the allegiance of Judah further acts of clemency may well have followed.
The prophets address themselves to men living in comfortable abodes with olive-fields and vineyards, suffering from bad seasons and agricultural depression, and though the country is unsettled there is no reference to any active opposition on the part of Samaritans.
In 1844 appeared his Essays on Some Unsettled Questions in Political Economy.
The provinces were unsettled, the barbarians on the borders restless and menacing, and Hadrian wisely judged that the old limits of Augustus afforded the most defensible frontier.
The great convulsion of the Revolution was drawing to a close, and everything was in an unsettled condition.
The unsettled political condition of Spain during the next forty years was reflected in the disturbed political conditions of Porto Rico and Cuba.
The fact that its product is shut out of its natural markets, without gaining that of the United States, is also a great handicap. The civic status of the people is still unsettled, but there has been under American rule a notable advance in the well-being of the island.
It cannot indeed be said that complete tranquillity prevailed throughout the country meanwhile; disturbances in the principalities and in the Lebanon gave serious trouble, while in 1842 the unsettled state of the Turco-Persian frontier nearly led to war.
Unsettled claims by French citizens led to a breaking off of relations and the occupation of Mitylene by France in November 1901; the rupture was of short duration and Turkey soon gave way, according complete satisfaction both in this matter and on certain other French demands.
The importance of Callao in colonial times, when it was the only open port south of Panama, did not continue under the new political order, because of the unsettled state of public affairs and the loss of its monopoly.
Deidre gave an unsettled laugh.
Standing before the Dark One, he grew more unsettled.
She watched the cave swallow Rhyn, unsettled by the idea of moving between places via the shadow world.
Unsettled by the image of a cheerful demon on a spit, she flipped to the next illustration.
She breathed deeply several times, nerves and instincts unsettled.
She groped for the nearest light and flipped it on, unsettled by the man even in the warm lamplight.
He appeared more unsettled than Katie had ever seen him.
Unsettled by the display of power, she started to skirt away.
While the two maintained mutual respect, Jake Weller appeared unsettled in Dean's presence, a combination of insecurity over Dean's more extensive experience and memories of past encounters that had pushed the lawman into compromising situations.
She moved the guns and knives out of the way, unsettled by the thought of blood.
He rose, unsettled by the scene around him.
He did not, however, succeed in obtaining a call to any church, and for some little time his future was unsettled.
The question of the origin of the Atlantic basin, like that of the other great divisions of the hydrosphere, is still unsettled.
The post was unprofitable, and Wagner's life at this period was very unsettled.
Places were thus founded over a large space which otherwise might have remained unsettled.
But though the war was ended, the terms of the treaty left a number of burning questions, both internal and external, unsettled.
In fact, it is thought by some French students of the country that the Arab element will probably be eliminated from Tunisia, as it is the most unsettled.
Notwithstanding the increased production of gold, Johannesburg during1905-1907passed through a period of severe commercial depression, the result in part of the unsettled political situation.
In December 1824 Bolivar convoked a constituent congress for the February following; but this body, taking into consideration the unsettled state of the country, thought it proper to invest him with dictatorial power for another year.
It was the year before the rebellion of 1837; the condition of the whole country was very unsettled; and it seemed well-nigh impossible to reconcile differences arising from racial and political antagonisms. During the rebellion young Macdonald volunteered for active service, but his military career never went farther than drilling and marching.
In 1889 the Democrats were charged with fraud in the 34th election precinct of Silverbow county, and, the dispute remaining unsettled, two legislatures were seated.
On 16th March, her mother, the duchess of Kent, died, and on 14th December, while the dispute with America about the Trent "affair was yet unsettled, the prince consort breathed his last at Windsor.
The mutual relations of the latter, as well as the names of the several constituent chains, are equally unsettled.