What is another word for disquieting?

Pronunciation: [dɪskwˈa͡ɪ͡ətɪŋ] (IPA)

Disquieting refers to something that causes mental or emotional uneasiness, discomfort, or agitation. Some synonyms for the word include alarming, disturbing, unnerving, unsettling, troubling, perturbing, agitating, and distressing. These words describe things that create a sense of unease or anxiety in a person, making them feel uneasy or uncomfortable. Disquieting moments can arise in situations that are unfamiliar or when we experience events that are beyond our control or understanding. Using synonyms for disquieting can help vary your language and convey a deeper sense of unease or discomfort when writing or speaking about something that causes emotional agitation.

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Disquieting is a word that describes something that causes feelings of anxiety, worry or unease. Its antonyms are words that embody feelings of calm, relaxation and peace. Such words include tranquil, soothing, serene, composed, peaceful and calming. These words describe a state of mind free from distress and worry. They are often used to describe physical surroundings that are conducive to relaxation and calmness. Using such antonyms as tranquil and peaceful helps to convey a sense of serenity, comfort and safety. When looking for words to describe a sense of calmness and tranquility, these antonyms for disquieting can be very helpful.

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Usage examples for Disquieting

It is a compound feeling and some of its elements are the same in both cases; but in one there is a disquieting element which the other is without.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
The feeling, so intense in his case, is known to most if not all of us; but we feel it faintly as a disquieting element in nature of which we may be but vaguely conscious.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
From my thought of these two I remember that I drifted on to some consideration of myself, for their presence opened old paths where were in durance things that did their best to escape, and were disquieting.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale

Famous quotes with Disquieting

  • [W]e do live in a conceptual trough that encourages such yearning for unknown and romanticized greener pastures of other times. The future doesn't seem promising, if only because we can extrapolate some disquieting present trends into further deterioration: pollution, nationalism, environmental destruction, and aluminum bats. Therefore, we tend to take refuge in a rose-colored past […]. I do not doubt the salutary, even the essential, properties of this curiously adaptive human trait, but we must also record the down side. Legends of past golden ages become impediments when we try to negotiate our current dilemma.
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
    Aldous Huxley
  • ...one straggles gracelessly through a wilderness of common sense. It is an experience for which the reader of modern criticism is unprepared: in that jungle through which one wanders, with its misshapen and extravagant and cannibalistic growths, bent double with fruit and tentacles, disquieting with their rank eccentric life, one comes surprisingly on something so palely healthy: a decorous plant, without thorns or flowers, rootless in the thin sand of the drawing room.
    Randall Jarrell
  • The age seems from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to otherwise than and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I it very much ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are any nearer to bringing about a in this ?"
    Christopher Hitchens

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