unquiet

American  

[uhn-kwahy-it] / ʌnˈkwaɪ ɪt /

adjective

1. agitated; restless; disordered; turbulent.

   unquiet times.

2. mentally or emotionally disturbed; vexed or perturbed; uneasy.

   He felt unquiet and alone.

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noun

1. a state of agitation, turbulence, disturbance, etc..

   Unquiet spread throughout the land.

unquiet British  

/ ʌnˈkwaɪət /

adjective

1. characterized by disorder, unrest, or tumult

   unquiet times

2. anxious; uneasy

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noun

1. a state of unrest

Other Word Forms

• unquietly adverb
• unquietness noun

Etymology

Origin of unquiet

1515–25; un- ¹ + quiet (adjective) unquiet for defs. 1, 2, quiet (noun) unquiet for def. 3

Example Sentences

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

She is, in other words, a 21st-century human being who, in finding herself on her own stubborn, singular, unquiet terms, has ditched the usual script about men, women, pleasure and desire.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

So Vollie had a mantra—he had learned to meditate from Bobby Heflin, of all unquiet people, who’d read some magazine articles about Buddhism and a Buddhist’s all-eclipsing indifference to property, to life, to limb.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

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

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald