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DISQUIET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of seeming ill at ease

Synonyms:

disquiet; unease; uneasiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("disquiet" is a kind of...):

discomposure (a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure)

Derivation:

disquiet (disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments

Synonyms:

anxiousness; disquiet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("disquiet" is a kind of...):

anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)

Derivation:

disquiet (disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed

Example:

She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill

Synonyms:

cark; disorder; disquiet; distract; perturb; trouble; unhinge

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "disquiet" is one way to...):

disturb; trouble; upset (move deeply)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disquiet"):

vex; worry (disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The bad news will disquiet him

Derivation:

disquiet (the trait of seeming ill at ease)

disquiet (a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments)

Credits

 Context examples: 

To a man who is struggling with a complicated burden of perplexity and disquiet, such a reception is trying, I assure you.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I knew my silence disquieted them, and I well remembered the words of my father: I know that while you are pleased with yourself you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Now, in the midst of these intestine disquiets, we are threatened with an invasion from the island of Blefuscu, which is the other great empire of the universe, almost as large and powerful as this of his majesty.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My duty to Agnes, who loved me with a love, which, if I disquieted, I wronged most selfishly and poorly, and could never restore; my matured assurance that I, who had worked out my own destiny, and won what I had impetuously set my heart on, had no right to murmur, and must bear; comprised what I felt and what I had learned.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My master was yet wholly at a loss to understand what motives could incite this race of lawyers to perplex, disquiet, and weary themselves, and engage in a confederacy of injustice, merely for the sake of injuring their fellow-animals; neither could he comprehend what I meant in saying, they did it for hire.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The word "sensuous" had the effect of further disquieting Tom but before he could invent a protest the coupé came to a stop and Daisy signalled us to draw up alongside.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)