unquiet

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Definition of unquiet

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Uneasy and restless; unable to settle.
    “an unquiet mind”
    “But, for the unquiet heart and brain, ⁠A use in measured language lies; ⁠The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.”
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adj

  1. Uneasy and restless; unable to settle.
    “an unquiet mind”
    “But, for the unquiet heart and brain, ⁠A use in measured language lies; ⁠The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.”
  2. Causing or associated with unease or restlessness.
    “an unquiet night”
    “Madam Zenocrate, may I preſume To know the cauſe of theſe vnquiet fits: That worke such trouble to your woonted reſt:”
    “Wearied out, Francesca at once fell asleep—a slumber which would have been broken by anxiety, could she have known the feverish restlessness which kept Guido wakeful on his unquiet pillow, listening—and dreary it was to listen through the night—to the distant dash of the waves, as they rose beneath the loud and sweeping wind.”
    “Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.”

verb

  1. (archaic, transitive)To disquiet (someone or something); to disturb.
    “Butt the unbelevinge iewes, steryd uppe and unquyeted the myndes off the gentyles agaynste the brethren.”
    “Thus erring Rome hath, doth, & vvill our chriſtian VVorld vnqueate: / May therefore Princes ioyne to race that Monſter from his Seate.”
    “they were greatly troubled, and unquieted”

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Etymology

From un- + quiet.

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