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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unsettled
adjective
1: still in doubt; "an unsettled issue"; "an unsettled state of mind" [ant: {settled}]
2: not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle" [ant: {settled}]
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" [syn: {changeable}, {uncertain}]
4: lacking order or stability; "these unsettled times" [syn: {disturbed}]
5: not yet settled; "unsettled territory"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
320 Moby Thesaurus words for "unsettled": abnormal, adrift, afloat, agitated, alternating, ambitendent, ambivalent, amiss, amorphous, askew, at issue, at loose ends, awry, back, balled-up, bereft of reason, bothered, brainsick, broken, bustling, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, changing, chaotic, choppy, clouded, cockeyed, conditional, conditioned, confused, contingent, convulsed, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, dependent, depending, deprived of reason, deranged, desultory, deviable, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disconnected, discontinuous, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distraught, disturbed, dizzy, double-minded, dubious, dubitable, due, eccentric, embarrassed, erratic, ever-changing, exiled, fast and loose, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fidgety, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, flustered, fluttered, fluttering, fluttery, freakish, fretful, frontier, fussed, fussing, fussy, giddy, groundless, guttering, hallucinated, halting, haywire, herky-jerky, heteroclite, homeless, houseless, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, in a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in disorder, in question, in suspense, in the balance, inconclusive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, insane, intermittent, intermitting, irrational, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, jerky, jumbled, jumpy, loco, lunatic, lurching, mad, maddened, manic, mature, mazed, mazy, mental, mentally deficient, mercurial, meshuggah, misplaced, mixed up, mixed-up, mobile, moody, moon-struck, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutable, non compos, non compos mentis, nonuniform, not all there, not proved, not right, odd, of two minds, of unsound mind, off, on the fritz, open, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, outcast, outlandish, outstanding, overdue, owing, patchy, payable, pendent, pending, perplexed, perturbed, problematic, protean, psycho, put-out, queer, rambling, rattled, reasonless, remote, restive, restless, riled, roiled, roily, rough, roving, ruffled, scatterbrained, scrappy, senseless, shaken, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shook, shuffled, shuffling, sick, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, stateless, strange, suspenseful, tense, tetched, touched, troubled, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, unaccountable, unascertained, unattested, unauthenticated, unbalanced, uncertain, uncertified, unclear, unconfirmed, uncontrolled, uncorroborated, uncounted, undecided, undemonstrated, undependable, undetermined, undisciplined, uneasy, unequal, unestablished, uneven, unfixed, unfounded, unharbored, unhinged, unhoused, unmethodical, unmetrical, unnerved, unorganized, unpeaceful, unplaced, unpredictable, unproved, unproven, unquiet, unregular, unreliable, unresolved, unrestful, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsane, unshown, unsound, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantiated, unsupported, unsupported by evidence, unsustained, unsystematic, untested, untold, untried, unvalidated, unverified, up for grabs, upset, vacillating, vagrant, variable, varying, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, without basis, without grounds, witless, wobbling, wobbly
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