Antonyms for settledset·tled

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1. settled

   Antonyms:
   doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hazardous, insecure, perilous, precarious, risky, unassured, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady

   Synonyms:
   actual, assured, certain, firm, immutable, incontestable, infallible, real, stable, steady, strong, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unquestionable

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. settledadjective

   established or decided beyond dispute or doubt

   "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night"

   Antonyms:
   doubtful, peripatetic, mobile, wayfaring, drifting, tentative, homeless, wandering, itinerant, aimless, vagrant, vagabond, stormy, floating, undetermined, peregrine, unlocated, rootless, unsettled, stateless, undecided, nomadic, unresolved, roving, erratic, planetary, uninhabited, migratory, open, migrant

   Synonyms:
   colonized, colonised

2. settledadjective

   established in a desired position or place; not moving about

   "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization"

   Antonyms:
   wayfaring, itinerant, roving, undetermined, rootless, unsettled, undecided, uninhabited, doubtful, unresolved, floating, vagabond, open, aimless, stormy, tentative, peregrine, mobile, migrant, stateless, wandering, drifting, migratory, peripatetic, planetary, vagrant, homeless, unlocated, erratic, nomadic

   Synonyms:
   colonized, colonised

3. colonized, colonised, settledadjective

   inhabited by colonists

   Antonyms:
   unsettled, wandering, floating, doubtful, stateless, vagabond, undecided, tentative, unlocated, planetary, vagrant, wayfaring, unresolved, rootless, roving, homeless, itinerant, uninhabited, open, migrant, erratic, migratory, mobile, undetermined, aimless, drifting, peripatetic, nomadic, stormy, peregrine

   Synonyms:
   colonized, colonised

4. settledadjective

   not changeable

   "a period of settled weather"

   Antonyms:
   unsettled, vagabond, stateless, rootless, tentative, undecided, wandering, homeless, erratic, uninhabited, migrant, planetary, unlocated, doubtful, roving, drifting, wayfaring, undetermined, vagrant, open, unresolved, migratory, mobile, peripatetic, floating, nomadic, aimless, stormy, itinerant, peregrine

   Synonyms:
   colonized, colonised

How to use settled in a sentence?

1. Peter Dutton:

   We send a clear message, particularly [to] those ringleaders on Manus at the moment and over the course of the last few days, that have been causing significant disruption, that those people will not be settled in our country.

2. Kate Saunders:

   It's much easier to enforce administrative control over settled communities than over nomads in the grasslands, and also the Chinese authorities have aligned the policy with specific political objectives of eliminating separatism and eliminating expressions of Tibetan nationalism.

3. Mary Trump:

   Shes not allowed to write a book, you know, when we settled with her and her brother, who I do have a good relationship with shes got Fred Jr., Fred Jr., who I do have a good relationship with, but when we settled, she has a total... signed a nondisclosure.

4. Pope Benedict:

   I believe that you cannot reject people who arrive. You have to receive them, help them, look after them, accompany them and then see where to put them, but throughout all of Europe, some governments are working on it, and people have to be settled in the best possible way, but creating psychosis is not the cure.

5. Bryson Bort:

   Iran has to find the proper response to save face, but not escalate the fight to traditional warfare, i think we'll see cyber activity increase because it's easy to do, but it won't feel settled for them until there has been an equivalent loss of life.

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