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unsettled

unsettled adjective: disturbed, upset. Also the simple past and past participle of unsettle.

Adjective

unsettled (comparative more unsettled, superlative most unsettled)

  1. Disturbed, upset.
    • I was unsettled by the sudden outburst, and since I didn't know what to do I just stood there, confused.
    • Universal Directory of Railway Officials and Railway Year Book, 1946-47. […] Although the preparation of the fifty-second edition of this well-known work proved a far from easy task, owing to the continuance of unsettled conditions in many parts of the world, the response to the endeavours of the...1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 64
  2. Not in a steady condition, uncertain, subject to change.
  3. Not populated, having no settlers or other inhabitants.
  4. Unpaid.
    • We need to settle this bill; even if you think the charge is too high we can't just leave it unsettled.

Also used as

unsettled is also the simple past and past participle of unsettle.

unsettled meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati and Nepali

unsettled in Tamil

அமைதியற்றதாக

unsettled in Urdu

غیر متزلزل

unsettled in Gujarati

અવ્યવસ્થિત

unsettled in Nepali

अव्यवस्थित
More languagesFewer languages
unsettled in Persian
اندروا andarvâ

Examples of unsettled in a sentence

  • Even the most bloodlusted fans were unsettled by the gratuitous bloodbath that was the final episode.
  • He was unsettled by her probing questions.
  • The pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.

All 14 example sentences with unsettled

Forms of unsettled

comparativemore unsettled
superlativemost unsettled

Words formed from unsettled

Questions about unsettled

What does unsettled mean?
Unsettled means disturbed, upset.
What is unsettled in Tamil?
Unsettled in Tamil is அமைதியற்றதாக. See Unsettled meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unsettled?
Unsettled is an adjective.

Words near unsettled in the dictionary

  1. unsetting
  2. unsetting the table
  3. unsettle
  4. unsettleability
  5. unsettleable
  6. unsettled
  7. unsettledly
  8. unsettledness
  9. unsettlednesses
  10. unsettlement
  11. unsettlements

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsettled (page history and authors); unsettled (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unsettled (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unsettled (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unsettled (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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