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DISQUIETED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disquieted mean?
• DISQUIETED (adjective)
The adjective DISQUIETED has 1 sense:
1. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
Familiarity information: DISQUIETED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
Synonyms:
disquieted; distressed; disturbed; upset; worried
Context example:
one last worried check of the sleeping children
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Context examples
She could not feel that she had done wrong herself, but she was disquieted in every other way.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I endeavoured to appear unconscious and not disquieted, but, I saw in his face, with poor success.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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)
I knew my silence disquieted them, and I well remembered the words of my father: I know that while you are pleased with yourself you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
My duty to Agnes, who loved me with a love, which, if I disquieted, I wronged most selfishly and poorly, and could never restore; my matured assurance that I, who had worked out my own destiny, and won what I had impetuously set my heart on, had no right to murmur, and must bear; comprised what I felt and what I had learned.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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