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Unsettled vs Troubled - What's the difference?

unsettled | troubled | Related terms |

Unsettled is a related term of troubled.


As adjectives the difference between unsettled and troubled

is that unsettled is disturbed, upset while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.

As verbs the difference between unsettled and troubled

is that unsettled is (unsettle) while troubled is (trouble).

unsettled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Disturbed, upset.
  • :I was unsettled by the sudden outburst, and since I didn't know what to do I just stood there, confused.
  • Not in a steady condition, uncertain, subject to change.
  • Not populated, having no settlers or other inhabitants.
  • Unpaid.
  • :We need to settle this bill; even if you think the charge is too high we can't just leave it unsettled .

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (unsettle)

    • troubled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)