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Unsettling vs Unfit - What's the difference?

unsettling | unfit |

As adjectives the difference between unsettling and unfit

is that unsettling is that makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing while unfit is not fit; not having the correct requirements.

As verbs the difference between unsettling and unfit

is that unsettling is while unfit is to make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.

As a noun unsettling

is the weakening of some previously established system or norm.

unsettling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
  • * 2013 , Krishna Sen, ?Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia (page 19)
  • But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.

    unfit

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
  • :Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
  • Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
  • I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.

    Verb

    (unfitt)
  • To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
  • *1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
  • *:He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
  • *:These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.