unsettled
adjective B2- 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.
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The day came at length, and was almost as feverish as the night had been, but it brought reason to the aid of imagination, and Dantès was then enabled to arrange a plan which had hitherto been vague and unsettled in his brain.
She had been unwilling to mention Bingley; and the unsettled state of her own feelings had made her equally avoid the name of his friend: but now she would no longer conceal from her his share in Lydia’s marriage.
Their manner of living, even when the restoration of peace dismissed them to a home, was unsettled in the extreme.
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