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UNEASY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort
Classified under:
Similar:
uncomfortable (providing or experiencing physical discomfort)
Derivation:
uneasiness (physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
Example:
was always uneasy with strangers
Synonyms:
awkward; ill at ease; uneasy
Classified under:
Similar:
uncomfortable (conducive to or feeling mental discomfort)
Derivation:
uneasiness (the trait of seeming ill at ease)
uneasiness (embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance
Example:
an uneasy silence fell on the group
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
apprehensive; worried (mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc)
precarious; unstable (affording no ease or reassurance)
Also:
uncomfortable (conducive to or feeling mental discomfort)
unquiet (characterized by unrest or disorder)
tense (in or of a state of physical or nervous tension)
Antonym:
easy (free from worry or anxiety)
Derivation:
uneasiness (feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Lacking or not affording physical or mental rest
Example:
she fell into an uneasy sleep
Synonyms:
restless; uneasy
Classified under:
Adjectives
Derivation:
uneasiness (inability to rest or relax or be still)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
Example:
an unquiet mind
Synonyms:
anxious; nervous; queasy; uneasy; unquiet
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Derivation:
uneasiness (inability to rest or relax or be still)
Context examples:
Perhaps she ought to be ashamed, but Mr. Weston had been almost as uneasy as herself.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Very well, and very happy, only a little uneasy that they hear from you so seldom.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Their only effect upon him, however, was to make him uneasy and restless without his knowing what was the matter.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Her mother was surprised, and Elinor again became uneasy.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Very glad he was to get safely past them, for, with their bristling red beards and their fierce blue eyes, they were uneasy men to bargain with upon a lonely moor.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To tell you the truth, I am uneasy about poor Jekyll; and even outside, I feel as if the presence of a friend might do him good.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“It'll do to kiss the book on still, won't it?” growled Dick, who was evidently uneasy at the curse he had brought upon himself.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
That is what makes me uneasy.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was acutely uneasy if he were absent from her for a day.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had his papers a' reet, an' glad I was to be rid o' the dam' thing, for I was beginnin' masel' to feel uneasy at it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
