uneaseun‧ease /ʌnˈiːz/ noun [uncountable] - There is a growing sense of unease in the financial world about the industry's future.
- A fire truck or an ambulance whoops somewhere beyond the window, adding cruelly to my unease.
- A frown touched her brow to recall the feeling of unease that had gripped her during that brief conversation.
- He felt a curious mixture of elation and unease.
- He felt a twinge of unease even now at the memory.
- Hess, however, took it with equanimity, and laughed at Edward's own unease.
- The planning at Brighton revealed some of the unease in relations with the local authority.
- Those inequities have fed the public unease, and they appear to have yielded at least cosmetic results.
► sense/feeling of unease As she neared the door, Amy felt a growing sense of unease. public unease about defence policy ► a vague unease/dread· I felt a vague unease.
ADJECTIVE► deep· Again the drone of the plane seemed to echo a deeper unease, which again came to the surface of her mind.· Jessamy's temper gradually faded away and in its place came a deep feeling of unease.· Opinion polls have revealed a deep unease about Maastricht throughout the country.
VERB► feel· And now I feel unease again.· She never lost her feeling of unease.· Yet she could not, once that first convulsion was past, feel any unease.· He felt a twinge of unease even now at the memory.
► sense· Even at that early age, Celia sensed a strange unease, a tension amongst the grown-ups.· But he sensed an unease beneath the directness.· Clearly, pupils will sense a teacher's unease in presenting poetry to them, and are then likely to respond negatively.
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