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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not in a state of order or calmness; disturbed.
- adjective Likely to change or vary; variable.
- adjective Not determined or resolved.
- adjective Uncertain or doubtful.
- adjective Not paid or adjusted; outstanding.
- adjective Uninhabited or not occupied by settlers.
- adjective Not fixed or established.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not settled; not fixed in resolution; not determined; unsteady or wavering; fickle; fluctuating; of the mind, disturbed; deranged.
- Not determined, as something in doubt; not freed from uncertainty: as, an unsettled question.
- Having no fixed place of abode; not established. Unequal; not regular; changeable: as, unsettled weather. Not having the lees or dregs deposited; turbid; roily: as, an unsettled liquid. Not adjusted; not liquidated; unpaid: as, an unsettled dispute; an unsettled bill. Having no inhabitants; not occupied by permanent inhabitants: as, unsettled lands.
- Disturbed; lawless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Disturbed ,upset . - adjective Not in a
steady condition,uncertain , subject to change. - adjective Not populated, having no
settlers or otherinhabitants . - adjective
Unpaid . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unsettle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not settled or established
- adjective subject to change
- adjective still in doubt
- adjective not yet settled
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Examples
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It has created a kind of automobilism -- if the word may be allowed -- of mind and manners, an inclination to be perpetually "on the move," too much pressed for time to do anything at all, permanently unsettled, in fact to be _unsettled_ is its habitual condition if not its recognized plan of life.
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You can't blame the NASA engineers when they have families to feed in unsettled times.
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The situation at point guard likely will remain unsettled unless Brady Heslip can come in as a freshman and lend some stability.
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It made his stomach churn, already unsettled from the shifting g-forces of the shuttlecraft.
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The situation at point guard likely will remain unsettled unless Brady Heslip can come in as a freshman and lend some stability.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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They remain unsettled at fullback after releasing Henderson.
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Of course, I did not order the steak ... still feeling more than a little unsettled from the fishing adventure.
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With the league backing off its demand to link revenues with player costs, the players responded by accepting a salary cap during negotiations that took place in nearby Niagara Falls, N.Y. Still unsettled is where to set the cap.
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Still unsettled is the fate of left-hander John Halama.
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Words with the same meaning
- abnormal
- adrift
- afloat
- agitated
- alternating
- ambitendent
- ambivalent
- amiss
- amorphous
- askew
- at issue
- at loose ends
- awry
- back
- balled-up
- bereft of reason
- bothered
- brainsick
- broken
- bustling
- capricious
- careening
- catchy
- changeable
- changeful
- changing
- chaotic
- choppy
- clouded
- cockeyed
- conditional
- conditioned
- confused
- contingent
- convulsed
- crackbrained
- cracked
- crazed
- crazy
- daft
- deluded
- demented
- dependent
- depending
- deprived of reason
- deranged
- desultory
- deviable
- deviative
- disarranged
- discomfited
- discomposed
- disconcerted
- disconnected
- discontinuous
- dislocated
- disordered
- disorderly
- disorganized
- disoriented
- disquieted
- distraught
- disturbed
- dizzy
- double-minded
- dubious
- dubitable
- due
- eccentric
- embarrassed
- erratic
- ever-changing
- exiled
- fast and loose
- fence-sitting
- fence-straddling
- fickle
- fidgety
- fitful
- flickering
- flighty
- flitting
- fluctuating
- fluid
- flustered
- fluttered
- fluttering
- fluttery
- freakish
- fretful
- frontier
- fussed
- fussing
- fussy
- giddy
- groundless
- guttering
- hallucinated
- halting
- haywire
- herky-jerky
- heteroclite
- homeless
- houseless
- immethodical
- impetuous
- impulsive
- in a jumble
- in a pother
- in a pucker
- in a stew
- in a sweat
- in a swivet
- in a tizzy
- in disorder
- in question
- in suspense
- in the balance
- inconclusive
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- indecisive
- infirm
- infirm of purpose
- insane
- intermittent
- intermitting
- irrational
- irregular
- irresolute
- irresolved
- irresponsible
- jerky
- jumbled
- jumpy
- loco
- lunatic
- lurching
- mad
- maddened
- manic
- mature
- mazed
- mazy
- mental
- mentally deficient
- mercurial
- meshuggah
- misplaced
- mixed up
- mixed-up
- mobile
- moody
- moon-struck
- mugwumpian
- mugwumpish
- mutable
- non compos
- non compos mentis
- nonuniform
- not all there
- not proved
- not right
- odd
- of two minds
- of unsound mind
- off
- on the fritz
- open
- out of gear
- out of joint
- out of kelter
- out of kilter
- out of order
- out of place
- out of tune
- out of whack
- outcast
- outlandish
- outstanding
- overdue
- owing
- patchy
- payable
- pendant
- pendent
- pending
- perplexed
- perturbed
- problematic
- protean
- psycho
- put-out
- queer
- rambling
- rattled
- reasonless
- remote
- restive
- restless
- riled
- roiled
- roily
- rough
- roving
- ruffled
- scatterbrained
- scrappy
- senseless
- shaken
- shapeless
- shifting
- shifty
- shook
- shuffled
- shuffling
- sick
- snatchy
- spasmatic
- spasmic
- spasmodic
- spastic
- spineless
- sporadic
- spotty
- staggering
- stark-mad
- stark-staring mad
- stateless
- strange
- suspenseful
- tense
- tetched
- touched
- troubled
- tumultuous
- turbid
- turbulent
- unaccountable
- unascertained
- unattested
- unauthenticated
- unbalanced
- uncertain
- uncertified
- unclear
- unconfirmed
- uncontrolled
- uncorroborated
- uncounted
- undecided
- undemonstrated
- undependable
- undetermined
- undisciplined
- uneasy
- unequal
- unestablished
- uneven
- unfixed
- unfounded
- unharbored
- unhinged
- unhoused
- unmethodical
- unmetrical
- unnerved
- unorganized
- unpaid
- unpeaceful
- unplaced
- unpredictable
- unproved
- unproven
- unquiet
- unregular
- unreliable
- unresolved
- unrestful
- unrestrained
- unrhythmical
- unsane
- unshown
- unsound
- unstable
- unstable as water
- unstaid
- unsteadfast
- unsteady
- unsubstantiated
- unsupported
- unsupported by evidence
- unsustained
- unsystematic
- untested
- untold
- untried
- unvalidated
- unverified
- up for grabs
- upset
- vacillating
- vagrant
- variable
- varying
- veering
- vicissitudinary
- vicissitudinous
- volatile
- wandering
- wanton
- wavering
- wavery
- wavy
- wayward
- whimsical
- wishy-washy
- without basis
- without grounds
- witless
- wobbling
- wobbly
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