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restless
[rest-lis]
adjective
characterized by or showing inability to remain at rest.
a restless mood.
Synonyms: , ,unquiet or uneasy, as a person, the mind, or the heart.
Synonyms: , ,never at rest; perpetually agitated or in motion.
the restless sea.
Synonyms: , ,without rest; without restful sleep.
a restless night.
unceasingly active; averse to quiet or inaction, as persons.
a restless crowd.
restless
/ ˈɛٱɪ /
adjective
unable to stay still or quiet
ceaselessly active or moving
the restless wind
worried; anxious; uneasy
not restful; without repose
a restless night
Other 51Թ Forms
- restlessly adverb
- restlessness noun
- ˈٱԱ noun
- ˈٱ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Turner-Seed’s own writing lays bare a struggle for self-fulfillment, to reconcile the traditional values pushed by her Jewish immigrant parents with a restless need to discover and make her own way.
Now the formally restless Susan Choi turns to social realism in her beguiling if baggy “Flashlight,“ mapping a family’s journey among political autocracy and personal pain, from Midwestern cornfields to the Pacific Rim.
“I regret that now,” Kalin said Thursday morning, after a nearly restless night.
The restless young man drifted from one job to another, then found his first calling as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, an experience that would inform Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” and other books.
In questioning later in the day, Mr Thomas-Symonds, who leads on the response for the government, said he was "restless for further progress on payments".
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