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.