Unquiet
[,ʌn'kwaiәt]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by unrest or disorder; 'unquiet days of riots'; 'following the assassination of Martin Luter King ours was an unquiet nation'; 'spent an unquiet night tossing and turning' .
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Definition
(v. t.) To disquiet.
(a.) Not quiet; restless; uneasy; agitated; disturbed.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Uneasy, restless, agitated, disturbed, not calm, not tranquil.
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Definition
adj. not at rest disturbed: causing restlessness.—v.t. to disquiet.—n. Unquies′cence inquietude.—adv. Unquī′etly.—ns. Unquī′etness state of disturbance restlessness; Unquī′etude inquietude.
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Examples
- From the one we gather unquiet speculation, from the other satiety. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His fair neighbour, judging from her movements, appeared in a mood the most unquiet and unaccommodating. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mrs. Rouncewell's hands unquiet, as usual, on this reference. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- O the many, many nights and days through which the unquiet spirit within me haunted that house when Estella lived there! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful ghostly, unquiet possession, for a bad man to have. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Sometimes I thought the tomb unquiet, and dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden, and living, obtruded through coffin-chinks. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Here was an empty stomach feeding on an unquiet mind! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My mind's unquiet, sometimes, that's all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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