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disquieting

Syllables: dis·quiet·ing

disquieting adjective: causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy. Also the present participle and gerund of disquiet.

Adjective

disquieting (comparative more disquieting, superlative most disquieting)

  1. Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
    • It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC
    • The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible...1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638

Noun

disquieting (plural disquietings)

  1. The act by which someone or something is disquieted.
    • Thus we see the intuition of divine truth in minds of defiled affections, worketh not that sweet effect which is natural unto it to produce; but doubtings, terrors, and disquietings of conscience […]1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man

Also used as

disquieting is also the present participle and gerund of disquiet.

Forms of disquieting

Adjective
comparativemore disquieting
superlativemost disquieting
Noun
pluraldisquietings

Origin of disquieting

From disquiet + -ing.

Words formed from disquieting

Questions about disquieting

What does disquieting mean?
Disquieting means causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
What part of speech is disquieting?
Disquieting can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near disquieting in the dictionary

  1. disquietens
  2. disquieter
  3. disquieters
  4. disquieteth
  5. disquietful
  6. disquieting
  7. disquietingly
  8. disquietings
  9. disquietive
  10. disquietly
  11. disquietment

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