UNSETTLED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of unsettled in English

(Definition of unsettled from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of unsettled

unsettled
The chapter is reasonable and necessary, but somewhat heavy-going : various arguments are given their due, choices are made among them, and unsettled areas are identified.
During wartime, however, the mobility of young people unsettled existing familial and community control.
A question that remains unsettled is whether the causative-inchoative alternation applies at the lexical or at the syntactic level.
Still, naturalness is a problem for most present synthesizers, and there remain unsettled issues regarding how one ought to assess the quality of synthetic speech.
Shipping certainly opened up new worlds, but at the same time, it unsettled the relationship of humans as sensory beings to their surrounding environment.
After all, unsettled debts would damage a man's economic status among local traders and could potentially land him in gaol.
Distinctive about the subject matter of mathematics is that the question of what constitutes it is an unsettled one.
Such a mood dominates the poem - but it is finally unsettled.
Three days later, the child became increasingly irritable and unsettled.
As is apparent from many of the papers presented in this issue, questions related to vocabulary acquisition remain unsettled.
In the first, the situation is, of course, very unsettled.
The issue of effectiveness of economic sanctions is still unsettled.
This incident, which came only days before the university's official opening, unsettled the university community.
The politically charged atmosphere of the 1950s further unsettled the political balance between the federal centre and the regions.
Deep ideological divisions coincided with an unsettled economy.
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Translations of unsettled

in Chinese (Traditional)
變化, 易變的, 動盪不定的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
变化, 易变的, 动荡不定的…
in Spanish
inestable, incierto, inquieto…
in Portuguese
instável, incerto, inquieto…
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sık sık değişen, karışık, belirsiz…
instable, agité…
wisselvallig, onzeker…
nestálý, vzrušený…
ustabil, nervøs…
berubah-ubah, gelisah…
เปลี่ยนแปลงอยู่เสมอ, ที่วิตกกังวล…
hay thay đổi, lo lắng, bồn chồn…
zmienny, niepewny, niespokojny…
ostadig, orolig, ur gängorna…
berubah-ubah, tdk tenang…
unbeständig, schwankend…
ustabil, urolig, usikker…
нестійкий, неусталений, неспокійний…
неустойчивый, неустановившийся, беспокойный…
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