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Adjective: unsettled  ,ún'se-t(u)ld
  1. Not settled or established
    "an unsettled lifestyle"
     
  2. Still in doubt
    "an unsettled issue"; "an unsettled state of mind"
     
  3. Subject to change
    "unsettled weather with rain and hail and sunshine coming one right after the other";
    - changeable, uncertain
     
  4. Not yet settled
    "unsettled territory"
Verb: unsettle  ,ún'se-t(u)l
  1. Disturb the composure of
    "Good, it shouldn't unsettle him at all";
    - faze, unnerve, enervate, rattle [informal]

See also: doubtful, drifting, erratic, floating, homeless, itinerant, migrant, migratory, mobile, nomadic, open, peregrine [archaic], peripatetic, planetary, rootless, roving, stateless, tentative, undecided, undetermined, uninhabited, unlocated, unresolved, vagabond, vagrant, variable, wandering, wayfaring

Type of: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune [rare], upset

Antonym: settled

Encyclopedia: Unsettled