UNQUIET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unquiet mean? 

• UNQUIET (adjective)
  The adjective UNQUIET has 2 senses:

1. characterized by unrest or disorder

2. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

  Familiarity information: UNQUIET used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNQUIET (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by unrest or disorder

Context example:

spent an unquiet night tossing and turning

Similar:

disruptive; riotous; troubled; tumultuous; turbulent (characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination)

squalling; squally (characterized by short periods of noisy commotion)

Also:

agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)

uneasy (lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance)

wild (marked by extreme lack of restraint or control)

Antonym:

quiet (characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

Synonyms:

anxious; nervous; queasy; uneasy; unquiet

Context example:

an unquiet mind

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

 Context examples 

That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on her first arrival, was again the scene of agitated spirits and unquiet slumbers.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the evening, when they were all three together, Marianne began voluntarily to speak of him again;—but that it was not without an effort, the restless, unquiet thoughtfulness in which she had been for some time previously sitting—her rising colour, as she spoke,—and her unsteady voice, plainly shewed.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly—if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore—often, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities for ever.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Up in the garret, where Jo's unquiet wanderings ended stood four little wooden chests in a row, each marked with its owners name, and each filled with relics of the childhood and girlhood ended now for all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After surmounting your unconquerable horror of the bed, you will retire to rest, and get a few hours' unquiet slumber.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)