disquieting
- causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing: disquieting news.
Origin of disquieting
disquiet
- lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
- to deprive of calmness, equanimity, or peace; disturb; make uneasy: The news disquieted him.
- Archaic. uneasy; disquieted.
Origin of disquiet
Related Words for disquieting
distressing, perplexing, unsettling, bothersome, disturbing, annoying, worrying, disconcerting, vexing, troubling, perturbing, irritating, unnerving, troublesomeExamples from the Web for disquieting
Contemporary Examples of disquieting
They had a party later on in Richmond with their friends, which I found at once happy but disquieting.
That is the question at the heart of this disquieting story from the most-talented E. Jean Carroll.
The Stacks: The Searing Story of How Murder Stalked a Tiny New York TownE. Jean Carroll
April 19, 2014
The message is disquieting; the messengers are the ones we've been waiting for.
Regardless, the symbiosis between the Democratic Party and Silicon Valley is, on a real level, disquieting.
“Cosmopolis,” the David Cronenberg film starring Robert Pattinson, is a disquieting look at a twisted Wall Street.
Historical Examples of disquieting
Losing a million a minute, even in sleep, he thought, was disquieting.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
It is most disquieting at times, the things Eleanore tells me about myself.
The HarborErnest Poole
He had seen them before imperfectly in the disquieting dreams.
Now We Are ThreeJoe L. Hensley
The fact was not surprising, but the remark was disquieting.
The Prisoner of ZendaAnthony Hope
These disquieting developments had been watched with anxiety in London.
disquiet
- a feeling or condition of anxiety or uneasiness
- (tr) to make anxious or upset
- archaic uneasy or anxious