Definition of unrestful in English:
unrestful
adjective ʌnˈrɛs(t)fʊlʌnˈrɛs(t)f(ə)l
Not restful.
Example sentencesExamples
- And one night he thought he heard, underneath the wind, awaking from that fitful, unrestful sleep, ‘It's coming, be patient.’
- It was the most unrestful sleep he'd had in a long time.
- A startled squeak came from the box the two of them were standing over as Golin seemed to awaken from an unrestful sleep.
- I was woken from an unrestful doze when the door was opened again and propped myself up on one elbow, squinting into the light.
- The journey not only reveals an artist seeking his voice, but an immigrant seeking to order his inner world before stepping onto the unrestful shore.
- target: not reached
- Not that, in the end, I minded this kind of unrestful treatment.
Derivatives
adverb
Something told her Caia was sleeping, very unrestfully for that matter.
Example sentencesExamples
- Towards midnight the noises began to form themselves into a rhythm in Dorothy's brain, and she fell lightly and unrestfully asleep.
- I dream of the return, and unrestfully so about the possibility that I may feel the contrary need to leave again.
- I'm sleeping deeply, but unrestfully, with lots of dreams.
- Not only did I have very little dream recall (worst I've had in weeks), but I did not have restful sleep at all, I only slept about 3 hours, then woke up couldn't get back to sleep for almost 3 hours, and slept another hour or two unrestfully.