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Definition of unquiet in English: unquietadjective ʌnˈkwʌɪətˌənˈkwaɪət 1Unable to be still; restless. poor Amy's unquiet spirit Example sentencesExamples - Cyrus is after another unquiet soul to add to what looks like a spectral petting zoo in the basement of his state - of-the-art glass mansion.
- You come from unquiet country into rooms the marshes empty to at low tide. Region of seed kind.
- It is quite simple: the region remains sufficiently unquiet for Nato to commit large ground forces and if Albright's hot spring turns into a torrid summer, then large numbers of them will find themselves in action, some never to return.
- It prophesies death to those who meddle with the spirits of the unquiet.
- For a Tony Blair tormented by the unquiet ghosts of the conflict, this threatens to be a war without end.
- Perhaps by now the Locum had exercised all my unquiet spirits, I thought.
- Are unquiet spirits returning from the grave to haunt the living, screwing up your picnic plans?
- These are in fact unquiet borderlands and are witness to cross-border insurgency, gun-running, narcotics and AIDS, smuggling, money laundering, trafficking in women and illicit immigration.
- Bring 'em back, say I, back from their unquiet graves.
- These are unquiet presences, artefacts that assume the nature of living things.
- So, our community honors our blessed ancestors; those people summon up the evil spirits of the unquiet dead.
- Naomi Campbell had a quiet, intimate night at her estate in Kenya - are there unquiet nights in Kenya?
- One thing, however, is certain: Witney, a quiet Oxfordshire town that has passed through many unquiet times, will continue to thrive for a long time to come.
- Unlike Mouseman and Swordsman I don't think that Mandleson will rise from his unquiet grave just yet.
- And then one night in New Orleans, he wanders, musing and unquiet, into Storeyville and hears Jazz.
- The quiet precinct of the church - yard becomes an unquiet sea of death in which the sleep of the rude Forefathers, forever laid ‘each in his narrow cell,’ seems vexed by a restlessness that will severely tax the poet's resources.
- Less surprisingly, he says, ‘I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin’, a hangover of his boyhood love of horror comics and movies.
- The sea itself seemed to resist clarity as much as complete stillness, as though its heart were restless, unquiet, pitted by its very nature against all that was unchanging.
- It ushered in an unquiet century of warfare, the bloodiest since the thirty years war which had destroyed central Europe three centuries earlier.
- The darkening sky cast the dead stone landscape into nightmare shadows like an unquiet cemetery.
- 1.1 Uneasy; anxious.
Example sentencesExamples - It's also fair to say that I would nonetheless like a companion to share it with, and that in my more unquiet moments I get annoyed with myself for what seems like a superfluous desire; after all, I don't need a partner to make me happy.
- Journals are deeper wells whose waters feed the unquiet foreboding of our souls.
- Missives from Fox's unquiet mind, as she struggles to meet the intelligentsia's high standards for motherhood.
- Portofino, or Port of Dolphins as it was called by Pliny, has attracted tourists since long before de Maupassant sailed into its cupped harbour to ‘find peace for his unquiet spirit’.
- It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Harris' theoretical commitments are designed to explain away a feminine side that perhaps even today troubles an unquiet virility.
- He was a poet of the heart, of failure, of doubt, of ‘the unquiet mind, the emptiness within,’ someone who revelled in rodent-like explorations of love.
Synonyms worried, concerned, apprehensive, fearful, uneasy, ill at ease, perturbed, troubled, disquieted, bothered, disturbed, distressed, fretful, fretting, agitated, in a state of agitation, nervous, in a state of nerves, edgy, on edge, tense, overwrought, worked up, keyed up, strung out, jumpy, afraid, worried sick, with one's stomach in knots, with one's heart in one's mouth, on pins and needles, stressed, under stress, in suspense, flurried
Derivatives adverb Likewise she confessed that because she lived somewhat unquietly with her husband she caused Satan to kill him, and he did so about nine years past, since which time she hath lived a widow. Example sentencesExamples - At 53, Mai is lying on a bed in Dublin's Jersey Street Hospital, unquietly expiring from liver cancer.
- Peiji, who made his way to Taiwan with the retreating KMT, lives very unquietly in neon-struck Taipei.
- The general effect was of something you might see occurring unquietly in the branches of a tree.
- It's fairly fashionable to portray vampires these days as members of a vanishing race, going unquietly into oblivion, but, sheesh.
noun A feeling of unquietness and fear was now in the air, an almost tangible tension. Example sentencesExamples - Augustine would have understood this very well: it is an instance of yearning, of the heart's unquietness until it finds the peace given by explicit knowledge of the God of Abraham.
- In his pictures, we read the unquietness of his inner feelings, the conflict between nascent thoughts that cannot find any suitable form of expression…
- Otherwise, we will be born again and we will be subject to the constant unquietness of the mind again.
- Next morning - steam rising and considerable signs of unquietness showed.
Definition of unquiet in US English: unquietadjectiveˌənˈkwaɪətˌənˈkwīət 1Not inclined to be quiet or inactive; restless. she prowled at night like an unquiet spirit Example sentencesExamples - Bring 'em back, say I, back from their unquiet graves.
- It prophesies death to those who meddle with the spirits of the unquiet.
- So, our community honors our blessed ancestors; those people summon up the evil spirits of the unquiet dead.
- The sea itself seemed to resist clarity as much as complete stillness, as though its heart were restless, unquiet, pitted by its very nature against all that was unchanging.
- Less surprisingly, he says, ‘I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin’, a hangover of his boyhood love of horror comics and movies.
- And then one night in New Orleans, he wanders, musing and unquiet, into Storeyville and hears Jazz.
- These are unquiet presences, artefacts that assume the nature of living things.
- One thing, however, is certain: Witney, a quiet Oxfordshire town that has passed through many unquiet times, will continue to thrive for a long time to come.
- Cyrus is after another unquiet soul to add to what looks like a spectral petting zoo in the basement of his state - of-the-art glass mansion.
- You come from unquiet country into rooms the marshes empty to at low tide. Region of seed kind.
- These are in fact unquiet borderlands and are witness to cross-border insurgency, gun-running, narcotics and AIDS, smuggling, money laundering, trafficking in women and illicit immigration.
- Unlike Mouseman and Swordsman I don't think that Mandleson will rise from his unquiet grave just yet.
- The darkening sky cast the dead stone landscape into nightmare shadows like an unquiet cemetery.
- It ushered in an unquiet century of warfare, the bloodiest since the thirty years war which had destroyed central Europe three centuries earlier.
- The quiet precinct of the church - yard becomes an unquiet sea of death in which the sleep of the rude Forefathers, forever laid ‘each in his narrow cell,’ seems vexed by a restlessness that will severely tax the poet's resources.
- Perhaps by now the Locum had exercised all my unquiet spirits, I thought.
- Naomi Campbell had a quiet, intimate night at her estate in Kenya - are there unquiet nights in Kenya?
- It is quite simple: the region remains sufficiently unquiet for Nato to commit large ground forces and if Albright's hot spring turns into a torrid summer, then large numbers of them will find themselves in action, some never to return.
- For a Tony Blair tormented by the unquiet ghosts of the conflict, this threatens to be a war without end.
- Are unquiet spirits returning from the grave to haunt the living, screwing up your picnic plans?
- 1.1 Uneasy; anxious.
Example sentencesExamples - Portofino, or Port of Dolphins as it was called by Pliny, has attracted tourists since long before de Maupassant sailed into its cupped harbour to ‘find peace for his unquiet spirit’.
- Journals are deeper wells whose waters feed the unquiet foreboding of our souls.
- He was a poet of the heart, of failure, of doubt, of ‘the unquiet mind, the emptiness within,’ someone who revelled in rodent-like explorations of love.
- It's also fair to say that I would nonetheless like a companion to share it with, and that in my more unquiet moments I get annoyed with myself for what seems like a superfluous desire; after all, I don't need a partner to make me happy.
- It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Harris' theoretical commitments are designed to explain away a feminine side that perhaps even today troubles an unquiet virility.
- Missives from Fox's unquiet mind, as she struggles to meet the intelligentsia's high standards for motherhood.
Synonyms worried, concerned, apprehensive, fearful, uneasy, ill at ease, perturbed, troubled, disquieted, bothered, disturbed, distressed, fretful, fretting, agitated, in a state of agitation, nervous, in a state of nerves, edgy, on edge, tense, overwrought, worked up, keyed up, strung out, jumpy, afraid, worried sick, with one's stomach in knots, with one's heart in one's mouth, on pins and needles, stressed, under stress, in suspense, flurried
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