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restless

[rest-lis]

adjective

  1. characterized by or showing inability to remain at rest.

    a restless mood.

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  2. unquiet or uneasy, as a person, the mind, or the heart.

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  3. never at rest; perpetually agitated or in motion.

    the restless sea.

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  4. without rest; without restful sleep.

    a restless night.

  5. unceasingly active; averse to quiet or inaction, as persons.

    a restless crowd.



restless

/ ˈɛٱɪ /

adjective

  1. unable to stay still or quiet

  2. ceaselessly active or moving

    the restless wind

  3. worried; anxious; uneasy

  4. not restful; without repose

    a restless night

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • restlessly adverb
  • restlessness noun
  • ˈٱԱ noun
  • ˈٱ adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of restless1

First recorded before before 1000; Middle English restles, Old English ٱŧ; rest 1, -less
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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.

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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.

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“I regret that now,” Kalin said Thursday morning, after a nearly restless night.

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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.

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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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