Word Meanings - RESTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child. Chaucer. "Restless revolution day by day." Milton. 2. Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless
Additional info about word: RESTLESS
1. Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child. Chaucer. "Restless revolution day by day." Milton. 2. Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects. "Restless at home , and ever prone to range." Dryden. 3. Deprived of rest or sleep. Restless he passed the remnants of the night. Dryden. 4. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night. 5. Not affording rest; as, a restless chair. Cowper. Restless thrush. See Grinder, 3. Syn. -- Unquiet; uneasy; disturbed; disquieted; sleepless; agitated; unsettled; roving; wandering. -- Rest"less*ly, adv.- Rest"less*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESTLESS)
- Anxious
- Solicitous
- careful
- uneasy
- concerned
- restless
- watchful
- disturbed
- unquiet
- Fickle
- Fanciful
- fitful
- capricious
- irresolute
- changeable
- vacillating
- mutable
- unreliable
- veering
- shifting
- variable
- inconstant
- unstable
- Fitful
- Capricious
- fickle
- impulsive
- desultory
- fanciful
- unequal
- irregular
Related words: (words related to RESTLESS)
- ANXIOUSLY
In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously. - VACILLATING
Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv. - IRREGULARITY
The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular. - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - CAPRICIOUS
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; - MUTABLE
1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn. - SHIFT
divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To - IMPULSIVELY
In an impulsive manner. - CAREFULLY
In a careful manner. - VACILLATION
1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor. - UNEQUALNESS
The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor. - WATCHFUL
Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful - SHIFTER
An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. (more info) - ANXIOUSNESS
The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety. - SOLICITOUS
Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful. "Solicitous of my reputation." Dryden. "He was solicitous for his advice." Calerendon. Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be - CONCERNEDLY
In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically. - DISTURBANCE
The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil; - UNEASY
1. Not easy; difficult. Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood. Boyle. The road will be uneasy to find. Sir W. Scott. 2. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed. The soul, uneasy and confined from - FICKLE
Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; - UNCONCERNMENT
The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South. - CRESTLESS
Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak. - UNSHIFTABLE
1. That may 2. Shiftless; helpless. - SCENESHIFTER
One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman. - COMMUTABLE
Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.