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disquiet
[ dis-kwahy-it ]
noun
- lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
verb (used with object)
- to deprive of calmness, equanimity, or peace; disturb; make uneasy:
The news disquieted him.
adjective
- Archaic. uneasy; disquieted.
disquiet
/ dɪsˈkwaɪət /
noun
- a feeling or condition of anxiety or uneasiness
verb
- tr to make anxious or upset
adjective
- archaic.uneasy or anxious
Derived Forms
- disˈquietedly, adverb
- disˈquieting, adjective
- disˈquietingly, adverb
- disˈquietedness, noun
Other Words From
- dis·quiet·ed·ly adverb
- dis·quiet·ed·ness noun
- dis·quiet·ly adverb
- undis·quiet·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Yet these quick decisions are based more on disquiet than data.
Liang, still suffering the effects of a traumatic childhood back in China, thrashes violently in his sleep and trudges through his days in a fog of disquiet.
Do both symptoms perhaps point to the same internal disquiet?
The show articulated a precise brand of feminine disquiet that my grad school friends and I could relate with.
As they got lower and lower down the hill, her wretchedness and disquiet became acute, to the point of a wild despair.
The disquiet indicated resembles rather that attending the uncertainties of the Nile campaign.
Yet, conscious that he had said nothing that was wrong, he felt no disquiet.
Do you ever sigh and disquiet your heart, Christian pilgrim, because God has not given you wealth and worldly ease?
Her gentleness touched him but caused him disquiet, too, because he could not help realizing that a great part of it was apathy.
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