unquiet

Plural: unquiets

Adjective

• Not quiet; characterized by restlessness, agitation, or disturbance.
• 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"

Adjective Satellite

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
  • "an unquiet mind"

Adj

• Uneasy and restless; unable to settle.
• Causing or associated with unease or restlessness.

Verb

• To disquiet (someone or something); to disturb.

Noun

• A state of agitation, restlessness, or public disturbance.

Examples

• an unquiet mind
• an unquiet night
• The unquiet in the room grew as the Scrabble game neared its tense conclusion.
• The unquiet silence before her opponent’s big play was almost as nerve-wracking as the play itself.

Synonyms

anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy

Antonyms

quiet

Anagrams of unquiet