unquiet
Americanadjective
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agitated; restless; disordered; turbulent.
unquiet times.
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mentally or emotionally disturbed; vexed or perturbed; uneasy.
He felt unquiet and alone.
noun
adjective
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characterized by disorder, unrest, or tumult
unquiet times
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anxious; uneasy
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of unquiet
1515–25; un- 1 + quiet (adjective) unquiet for defs. 1, 2, quiet (noun) unquiet for def. 3
Example Sentences
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Top leaders pointed to high tourism numbers - some 23 million last year and millions more in the years before - as proof of a big boom after years of unquiet.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025
"This is important in these unquiet times, unstable international environment, it is without doubt a step that raises the security of our country and our people," Fiala said.
From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2023
Rather than breaking out, we spent 2021 getting used to a feeling of unquiet, making the most of being mostly alone.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021
It is the music of unquiet nights, in which music itself is the only consolation.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018
Shafts were driven deep into the ground; their upper ends were covered by low mounds and domes of stone, so that in the moonlight the Ring of Isengard looked like a graveyard of unquiet dead.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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