unsettlingly
In disquieting fashion
In a way that causes unease or discomfort.
Something unsettlingly quiet makes you nervous precisely because of the silence.
The doll's eyes followed me unsettlingly around the room.
He smiled unsettlingly, as if he knew something I didn't.
Disturbingly strange
- creepyDisturbingly strange
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- disconcertingCausing unease or confusion
- unnervingCausing loss of composure
disquieting · haunting · chilling · off-putting · jarring · alarming · troubling · distressing
Fearful anticipation of harm
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- portentousOminously significant
ominous · dark · grim · dire · baleful · forbidding · brooding · looming
Resembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
- phantasmalLike an apparition
- apparitionalResembling a specter
wraithlike · ethereal · paranormal · supernatural · macabre · gothic · eldritch · weird
In a worried manner
- nervouslyIn an anxious manner
- worryinglyIn a concerning manner
- disturbinglyIn an unsettling manner
- alarminglyIn a worrying manner
fearfully · dreadfully · apprehensively · tremulously · queasily · uncomfortably · tensely · restlessly
eerie
Disturbingly strange
- creepyDisturbingly strange
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- disconcertingCausing unease or confusion
unnerving · disquieting · haunting · chilling · off-putting · jarring · alarming · troubling · distressing · perturbing
foreboding
Fearful anticipation of harm
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
portentous · ominous · dark · grim · dire · baleful · forbidding · brooding · looming · premonitory
ghostly
Resembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
- phantasmalLike an apparition
apparitional · wraithlike · ethereal · paranormal · supernatural · macabre · gothic · eldritch · weird · unearthly
anxiously
In a worried manner
- nervouslyIn an anxious manner
- worryinglyIn a concerning manner
- disturbinglyIn an unsettling manner
alarmingly · fearfully · dreadfully · apprehensively · tremulously · queasily · uncomfortably · tensely · restlessly · agitatedly
unsettlinglyreassuringly
In confidence-restoring fashion
comfortingly · soothingly · tranquilly · peacefully · consolingly
unsettlinglyfamiliarly
In an intimate manner
predictably · normally · ordinarily · reassuringly · safely