Unsettled

Definition: Unsettled

Unsettled

Adjective

1. Still in doubt; "an unsettled issue"; "an unsettled state of mind".

2. Not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle".

3. Subject to change; "a changeable climate"; "the weather is uncertain"; "unsettled weather with rain and hail and sunshine coming one right after the other".

4. Lacking order or stability; "these unsettled times".

5. Not yet settled; "unsettled territory".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unsettled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Solar

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Synonyms: Unsettled

Changeableness

Unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating; Verb: restless; agitated; erratic, fickle; irresolute; capricious; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient; wavering.

Displacement

Adjective: displaced; Verb: unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished, unsettled; houseless, homeless; out of place, out of a situation; in the wrong place.

Insanity

Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head.

Newness

Adjective: new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young; evergreen; raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty; virgin; untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten; fire-new, span-new.

Uncertainty

Doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, undetermined; in suspense, open to discussion; controvertible; in question; (inquiry).

Crosswords: Unsettled

Unsettled is a painful place (Between You And Me; performing artist: DC Talk)

Unsettled (2001)

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Books

• An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia (Early American Studies) (reference)

• Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies: Stories of Unsettled Relations (Cultural Studies in Practice) (reference)

• Millie's Unsettled Season, Book 1 (reference)

• My Hand Will Write What My Heart Dictates: The Unsettled Lives of Women in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand As Revealed to Sisters, Family and Friends (reference)

• Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos: How to Keep Positive in an Unsettled World (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Unsettled Land (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Unsettled Life (reference)

• Unsettled Scores (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first

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Civil Liberties

Egypt

During the year no action was taken to replace Law 153, a law regulating the formation, function, and funding of NGO's and private foundations that was overturned by the Supreme Constitutional Court June 2000. While many NGO's were registered under Law 153, its overturn and the reinstatement of Law 32, which had governed NGO's previously, left a number of NGO's that had not yet registered under either Law 153 or Law 32 in an unsettled status regarding registration. (references)

Economic History

United Arab Emirates

The border with Oman also remains officially unsettled, but the two governments agreed to delineate the border in May 1999. (references)

Russia

In Russia's unsettled commercial environment, early advice on tax and legal issues will ultimately save both aggravation and money. (references)

Human Rights

Antigua and Barbuda

Conditions at the prison have remained unsettled since the fire. (references)

Political Economy

Fiji

Following the armed takeover of Parliament and subsequent coup in May 2000, the country's political situation has remained unsettled. (references)

Dominican Rep

Unfortunately, U.S. and other businesses still experience problems in the Dominican Republic, ranging from unsettled expropriations, to unmet contractual obligations in the electric sector, to patent protection that does not meet World Trade Organization standards. (references)

Travel

New Zealand

Weather is changeable, typically with short periods of a few days of settled or unsettled weather. (references)

Liberia

The northwestern part of the country is unsettled as rebel activity in Sierra Leone and Guinea continues to affect stability along the Sierra Leone-Guinea-Liberia border areas. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "unsettled": be unsettled ♦ be unsettled in a state of mind ♦ feel unsettled ♦ prepayments of premiums and reserves against unsettled claims ♦ reserves against unsettled claims ♦ unsettled account ♦ unsettled life. Additional references.

Beginning with "unsettled": unsettled-looking.

Albanian

i pazgjedhur (indecisive, irresolvable, undetermined, unpicked, unresolved, unselected, unsolved), i pavendosur (dubious, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, purposeless, sticky, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsteady), i papaguar (back, delinquent, outstanding, undischarged, unfeed, unpaid), i ndryshueshëm (alterable, changeable, changeful, fickle, flexible, inconstant, labile, mercurial, mobile, movable, mutable, protean, shifting, transitional, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, variable, various, varying, vertiginous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متنازع فيه (moot), ‏متقلب (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mercurial, mobile, moody, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, skittish, temperamental, unstable, unsteady, variable, versatile, volatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, whimsical, yeasty), ‏متردد (ambivalent, chary, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, faint-hearted, faltering, flickering, haunting, hesitant, hesitating, indecisive, infirm, irresolute, remittent, stammerer, tentative, timid, uncertain, undecided, vacillating, wavering), ‏معلق (hang, hang in the balance, hanging, in the air, pendent, pending, suspended), ‏مضطرب (confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, ill at ease, jumbled, mixed up, muddled, restive, restless, rough, troubled, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, upset), ‏مختلط (coeducation, disordered, jumbled, medley, mixed), ‏مشوش (become confused, chaotic, confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, disturber, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled up, messy, mixed, muddled, muddy, promiscuous), ‏غير مستقر (inconstant, infirm, insecure, labile, migrant, skittish, tottering, uneasy, unstable, unsteady), ‏غير مسدد, ‏غير مأهول (lifeless, unfrequented, ungrounded). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неуседнал, неуреден (outstanding), неутаен, несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky), нерешен (at a loose end, drawn, in suspense, open, problematic, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsolved), ненаселен (vacant), неизплатен (delinquent, outstanding, undischarged, unpaid, unredeemed), без определено местожителство, без определено жилище, променлив (baffling, changeable, choppy, erratic, fitful, fluctuating, fluent, inconsistent, inconstant, liquid, mobile, protean, shifting, undecided, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, varied, versatile, volatile). (various references)

Chinese 

憧 (irresolute), 不固定 (Unfix, unfixed). (various references)

Czech

zneklidnìný (distressful, upset), nezaplacený (outstanding, owing, unpaid), nevyrovnaný (erratic, uneven, unpaid), nevyřízený (outstanding, pending, unfinished), neusazený, nestabilní (unstable), nestálý (changeable, erratic, fickle, floating, impermanent, inconstant, passing, unceasing, unstable, unsteady, volatile), nervózní (fussy, high strung, highly strung, ill tempered, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neurotic, on edge, overstrung, overwrought, tense, uptight), nepevný (infirm, limp, unsteady), neobydlený (empty, lone, uninhabited, unoccupied, vacant, waste), nejistý (afloat, chancy, cloudy, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fluid, halting, insecure, jumpy, precarious, shaky, suspensive, tenuous, uncertain, undecided, uneasy, uneven, unsafe, unsound, unsure). (various references)

Danish

ustadigt vejr (unsettled weather), underrubrikken praemie-og erstatningsreserver omfatter praemiereserverne og erstatningsreserverne (the sub-heading prepayments of premiums and reserves against unsettled claims groups together prepayments of premiums with reserves against unsettled claims), uindfriet regning (unsettled account), transaktion uafvikled efter det fastsatte leveringstidspunkt (transaction unsettled after its due delivery date), rubrikken forsikringstekniske reserver omfatter de aktuarmaessige reserver til daekning af loebende risici,praemiereserver,reserver til daekning af bonusforpligtelser over for forsikringstagere samt erstatningsreserver (prepayment of premiums, reserves for with-profits insurance and reserves against unsettled claims.These reserves are considered as liabilities of the institutions concerned., The heading insurance technical reserves covers actuarial reserves against outstanding risks), praemie-og erstatningsreserver (prepayments of premiums and reserves against unsettled claims), ikke udlignet konto (unsettled account), erstatningsreserverne er de reserver,som forsikringsselskaberne opretter til daekning af de eventuelle erstatninger,som ikke betales straks,normalt fordi de er genstand for retsprocesser (especially when they are legally disputed, reserves against unsettled claims are reserves which insurers carry to cover the possible value of claims which have not been immediately settled), erstatningsreserver (reserves against unsettled claims). (various references)

Dutch

uitkeringsreserves zijn reserves die de verzekeraars vormen voor het dekken van de waarschijnlijke waarde van uitkeringen die niet onmiddellijk worden betaald,met name omdat zij betwist worden (especially when they are legally disputed, reserves against unsettled claims are reserves which insurers carry to cover the possible value of claims which have not been immediately settled), uitkeringsreserves (reserves against unsettled claims), premie-en uitkeringsreserves (prepayments of premiums and reserves against unsettled claims), onbetaalde rekening (unsettled account), onbestendig weer (unsettled weather), nog openstaande rekening (outstanding account, unsettled account), na de afgesproken leveringsdatum nog niet afgerekende transactie (transaction unsettled after its due delivery date), de subrubriek premie-en uitkeringsreserves omvat de premiereserves en de uitkeringsreserves (the sub-heading prepayments of premiums and reserves against unsettled claims groups together prepayments of premiums with reserves against unsettled claims), de rubriek technische verzekeringsreserves omvat de wiskundige reserves voor lopende risico's,de premiereserves,de reserves voor winstdelingsregelingen ten gunste van de verzekerden en de uitkeringsreserves.Deze reserves worden beschouwd als een verplicht (prepayment of premiums, reserves for with-profits insurance and reserves against unsettled claims.These reserves are considered as liabilities of the institutions concerned., The heading insurance technical reserves covers actuarial reserves against outstanding risks). (various references)

Finnish

vakaantumaton, suorittamaton (outstanding, unexecuted, unpaid), ratkaisematon (undecided, unresolved, unsolved), maksamaton (owing, unpaid). (various references)

French

sans habitants, perturbé, non acquitté, méfiant, instable (uncertain, unstable, unsteady), incertain (uncertain, unclear, undecided, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady). (various references)

German

ungeklärt (open, unexplained, unknown, unsolved, untreated), unbeständig (changeable, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, impermanent, inconsistent, inconsistently, inconstant, inconstantly, labile, Moody, transitory, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile). (various references)

Greek 

άστατοσ (capricious, fickle, flighty, floater, inconstant, mercurial, tergiversator, uncertain, unstable, volatile, whiffler), άστατος (changeable, fitful, inconstant, whimsical), ακατάστατοσ (blowzy, disorderly, frowsy, frowzy, messy, mussy, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, untidy), ακαταστάλαχτοσ, ακαθόριστοσ (amorphous, noncommittal, nondescript, vague), αδιευθέτητοσ (messy), αδιακανόνιστοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לא מיושב, לא יציב (groggy, inconstant, shaky, spotty, unstable, unsteady), �"פכפך (fickle, fitful, inconstant, spineless, temperamental, turncoat, wayward). (various references)

Hungarian

változékony (alterable, changeable, choppy, fickle, impermanent, inconstant, labile, liquid, mercurial, mobile, mutable, unsteady, variable), rendezetlen (anarchic, anarchical, higgledy-piggledy, incoordinate, inordinate, messy, outstanding, undisposed), le nem ülepedett, határozatlan (equivocal, hesitant, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, infirm, invertebrate, irresolute, obscure, shilly shally, shilly-shally, to be on the hedge, transcendental, undecided, undecisive, undetermined, unresolved, weak-kneed), elintézetlen (outstanding, pendent, pending, to depend), bizonytalan (choppy, cranky, dicey, dim, dubious, elusive, equivocal, faint, faltering, fickle, have cold feet, hazy, hesitating, indefinite, indeterminate, insecure, irresolute, nondescript, obscure, pennky, precarious, questionable, sandy, scratchy, shaky, speculative, suspensive, to be in the air, to hang in the air, to hang in the balance, transcendental, uncertain, unsteady, unsure, vague, woozy), állandó lakhely nélküli. (various references)

Italian

sconvolto (distracted, distraught, shattered, upset), non saldato, non pagato (undischarged, unliquidated, unpaid, unsalaried, unsold), indeciso (indecisive, irresolute, undecided), incerto (aleatory, borderline, dim, doubtful, dubious, in question, irresolute, open, questionable, shadowy, tentative, touch and go, uncertain, unclear, undecided, unsure, vague), disordinato (disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, irregular, messy, muddled, pell mell, slovenly, untidy, wild). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

未解決 (pending, unresolved), 未確定 (pending), 未処分 (undivided, unfinished), 流動的 (fluid), 変わり�"い (changeable, inconstant), 不決定 (pending, undecided). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふけってい (pending, undecided), かわりやすい (changeable, inconstant), りゅうどうてき (fluid), みしょぶ�" (undivided, unfinished), みかくてい (pending), みかいけつ (pending, unresolved). (various references)

Pig Latin

ettledunsay.(various references)

Portuguese

transtornado (upside-down), perturbado (ajar, distraught, disturbed, troubled, troublous, unquiet), irresoluto (double-minded, half-hearted, hesitant, indecisive, infirm, irresolute, shilly-shally, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed), indeciso (blear, double-minded, doubtful, drawn, feckless, fitful, half-hearted, halting, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, lacklustre, pendant, pendent, pending, shilly-shally, suspended, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, vague, wavering), incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fitful, floating, hazardous, incalculable, inconstant, insecure, kittle, lubricous, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, shifting, slippery, slippy, tottery, touch and go, touch-and-go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unstable, unsure), desarranjado (deranged, slipshod), alterado (haggard), agitado (agitated, astir, bustling, choppy, eventful, fidgety, frantic, fretful, fussy, hectic, jumpy, restless, rough, sleepless, trembling, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unquiet, working), abalado (crank, shaken, shook, unstable). (various references)

Romanian

zbuciumat (agitated, anxious, struggling, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet), variabil (changeable, choppy, floating, fluctuating, mutable, uncertain, uneven, unstable, unsteady, variable, variably, variant, varying), tulbure (cloudy, dim, feculent, filmy, muddy, thick, troubled, turbid, unquiet, vaguely), schimbãtor (capricious, catching, changeable, chequered, choppy, fickle, inconstant, mobile, Moody, moonish, mutable, shifty, slippery, switch, unequal, unsteady, variable, varied, versatile, volatile), nerezolvat (indeterminate, open, outstanding, pendent, pending, unsolved), nelocuit (empty, uninhabited, unoccupied, waste), fãrã domiciliu stabil, agitat (agitated, agog, angry, billowy, choppy, excited, excitedly, fevered, feverish, fractious, fretful, fussy, hectic, irritated, nervous, restless, snappish, tempestuous), în suspensie (outstanding). (various references)

Russian 

неустроенный, неурегулированный, незаселенный (devoid of inhabitants), подрывать нерешенный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uznemiren (disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, perturbed, queasy, troubled, uneasy, upset, vexed), promenljiv (changeable, changing, declinable, fickle, impermanent, mutable, shifting, unsteady, variable, variant, volatile), neustaljen, nesređen (disorderly, incoordinate, unregulated), neplaćen (outstanding, unpaid), neizmiren (undischarged, unpaid). (various references)

Spanish

variable (changeable, changeful, up and down, variable, varying, wayward), trastornado (deranged, dislocated, disordered, disrupted, disturbed, moonstruck, turned), sin poblar, pendiente (abruptness, acclivity, bank, Bob, Catkin, clevis, descent, dip, drop, ear-drop, earring, grade, hanging, incline, outstanding, pendant, pendent, pending, pitch, slope, upgrade), no colonizado, intranquilo (choppy, ill at ease, restive, restless, uneasy, worried), inquieto (agitated, anxious, apprehensive, disquiet, edgy, fidgety, fretful, ill at ease, nervous, restless, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, worried), inhabitado (inhabited), inestable (instable, rocky, unstable, unsteady), despoblado (deserted, outback, unoccupied), cuenta por pagar (outstanding). (various references)

Swedish

oavgjord (be drowned, drawn, open, pending, undecided). (various references)

Turkish

yerleşmemiş, yerleşilmemiş, oturmamış, kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), kararlaştırılmamış (in the air, undecided, undetermined, unfixed, up in the air), huzursuz (anxious, ill at ease, on pins and needles, out of sorts, peaceless, restive, restless, sleepless, tremulous, uneasy, unrestful, worrisome), belirsiz (ambiguous, backhanded, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dubious, dusty, equivocal, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, in the balance, indefinable, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, indistinct, inglorious, lax, misty, obscure, off color, off colour, precarious, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, vague), askıda (hanging, in dependance, in suspense, in the balance, outstanding, pendant, pendent, remaining in suspense, undecided), ödenmemiş (back, dishonoured, outstanding, owing, undischarged, unhonored, unhonoured, unpaid, unredeemed, unsatisfied). (various references)

Turkmen 

gorsanmak (be unsettled). (various references)

Ukrainian

нестійкий (astatic, broken, catching, chancy, dicky, drunk, erratic, groggy, infirm, labile, non-persistent, non-resistant, quaky, sliding, staggering, tickle, top heavy, unbalanced, unfixed, unsteady, wambly, yielding), неспокійний (anxious, bothersome, choppy, disquiet, incommodious, nervous, obstreperous, old womanish, qualmish, restive, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, vexatious, worrisome), неврегульований, неоплачений (unpaid, unredeemed, unrequited). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không dứt khoát (iffy, indecisive, indefinitive, undecided), do dự (double-minded, dubitative, hesitant, hesitatingly, hesitative, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, shilly-shally, suspensive, undecided, undecisive, undetermined, wavering). (various references)

Welsh

cyfatal (hindering), ansefydlog (fickle, unstable). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "unsettled": unsettledness, unsettlednesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lunettes, unletted, unsettle, untested.

-2 letters: detents, eluents, lunette, nestled, nettled, nettles, nutlets, settled, student, stunted, teledus, telnets, unsteel.

-3 letters: detent, detest, eldest, eludes, eluent, eluted, elutes, endues, ensued, etudes, lensed, letted, leudes, lunets, lunted, lusted, nested, nestle, netted, nettle, nudest, nutlet, nutted, settle, suttee, teledu, telnet, tenets, tensed, tented, tenues, tested, tutees.

-4 letters: deets.

+2 letters: laundrettes, plentitudes.

+3 letters: launderettes.

+4 letters: andouillettes, tendentiously, understatedly, unsettledness.

+5 letters: disgruntlement, indestructible, trinucleotides.