Disquieting

Quick meaning: Disquieting is an adjective meaning Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.

Meaning

Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of disquiet.
2. The act by which someone or something is disquieted.

Example Sentences

The reality, however, is a disquieting and entirely white town, littered with old apartheid flags and monuments to the architects of segregation.

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 […]

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.

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 men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.

Word Forms

• disquietings

Synonyms for disquieting

Depending on context, synonyms include uncomfortable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include uncomfortable, disturbing, unsettling, disconcerting, troubling, distressing.

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