Uneasy
[ʌn'iːzɪ] or [ʌn'izi]
Definition
(adj.) relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort .
(adj.) lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance; 'farmers were uneasy until rain finally came'; 'uneasy about his health'; 'gave an uneasy laugh'; 'uneasy lies the head that wears the crown'; 'an uneasy coalition government'; 'an uneasy calm'; 'an uneasy silence fell on the group' .
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Definition
(a.) Not easy; difficult.
(a.) Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.
(a.) Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.
(a.) Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Restless, restive, unquiet, disturbed, impatient, ill at ease, sitting on thorns.[2]. Constrained, stiff, awkward, ungraceful, ungainly, not easy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Restless, disturbed, {[un]?}, quiet, stiff, awkward,[See ANNUL]
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Definition
adj. not at ease: restless: feeling pain: constrained: not easy to be done.—ns. Unease′ (arch.) Uneas′iness state of being uneasy or not at ease: want of ease: disquiet.—adv. Uneas′ily.
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Examples
- Don't be uneasy if I am a little late--I must be careful not to give offence by leaving them too soon. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It left him, however, vaguely uneasy, and Mrs. Straker, waking at one in the morning, found that he was dressing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He spoke quietly and bowed his head a little, but there was still an uneasy feeling in his eyes as he looked at her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But gradually the sense of complete subjugation came over her, and she wondered languidly what had made her feel so uneasy and excited. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- We have been made quite uneasy by the poor accounts we have had of her state, lately, I do assure you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That is what makes me uneasy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- As Parker promised to return to Fanny in a week, she grew uneasy when almost a fortnight had elapsed without seeing or even hearing from him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It was evident to me that he was becoming uneasy, and that his plans were not working out altogether as he had hoped. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She sat sobbing and murmuring behind it, that, if I was uneasy, why had I ever been married? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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