DISQUIET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disquiet mean? 

• DISQUIET (noun)
  The noun DISQUIET has 2 senses:

1. a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments

2. the trait of seeming ill at ease

  Familiarity information: DISQUIET used as a noun is rare.

• DISQUIET (verb)
  The verb DISQUIET has 1 sense:

1. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed

  Familiarity information: DISQUIET used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISQUIET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

anxiousness; disquiet

Hypernyms ("disquiet" is a kind of...):

anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)

Derivation:

disquiet (disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The trait of seeming ill at ease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

disquiet; unease; uneasiness

Hypernyms ("disquiet" is a kind of...):

discomposure (a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure)

Derivation:

disquiet (disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed)

• DISQUIET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disquiet    ... he / she / it disquiets   
Past simple: disquieted   
Past participle: disquieted   
-ing form: disquieting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

cark; disorder; disquiet; distract; perturb; trouble; unhinge

Context example:

She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill

Hypernyms (to "disquiet" is one way to...):

disturb; trouble; upset (move deeply)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disquiet"):

vex; worry (disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The bad news will disquiet him

Derivation:

disquiet (the trait of seeming ill at ease)

disquiet (a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments)

 Context examples 

I endeavoured to appear unconscious and not disquieted, but, I saw in his face, with poor success.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I slept very little, for the disquiets of my mind prevailed over my weariness, and kept me awake.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He thought of him kindly; but his thoughts were disquieted and fearful.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She said nothing of her plan at home, but fell to work next day, much to the disquiet of her mother, who always looked a little anxious when 'genius took to burning'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She could not feel that she had done wrong herself, but she was disquieted in every other way.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Charles Hayter had met with much to disquiet and mortify him in his cousin's behaviour.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Nothing but such a persuasion could have prevented his putting an end to an engagement, which, long before the discovery of it laid him open to his mother's anger, had been a continual source of disquiet and regret to him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When he had done, instead of feeling better, calmer, more enlightened by his discourse, I experienced an inexpressible sadness; for it seemed to me—I know not whether equally so to others—that the eloquence to which I had been listening had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment—where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was quite amazed at her own discomposure; but amongst other causes of disquiet, she dreaded lest the partiality of the brother should have said too much in her favour; and, more than commonly anxious to please, she naturally suspected that every power of pleasing would fail her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)