uneasy
/ʌnˈiːzi
/adjective (uneasier, uneasiest)
1Causing or feeling anxiety; troubled or uncomfortable: she felt guilty now and a little uneasy an uneasy silence...
- These families have not returned to Juda as yet and an uneasy silence pervades the huts left behind by them.
- Diego grew uneasy with the silence and stood up, she walked to the door and knocked on it.
- A silence came over them as neither knew what to say next to break the uneasy silence.
Synonyms
worried, anxious, ill at ease, troubled, disturbed, agitated, nervous, tense, overwrought, keyed up, on edge, edgy, apprehensive, restive, restless, fidgety, discomposed, discomfited, perturbed, alarmed, fearful, fraught, upset;
uncomfortable, self-conscious, embarrassed, unsettled;
British nervy
informal jittery
British informal stressy
worrying, disturbing, troubling, agitating, alarming, dismaying, perturbing, disquieting, concerning, unsettling, disconcerting, upsetting
2(Of a situation or relationship) not settled; liable to change: she lived in a state of uneasy truce with her strict father...
- Because of his concerns to get a job done right, Peter Saville and business have long had an uneasy relationship.
- Today's poem explores further that uneasy relationship between savage cat and gentle poet.
- Shoes have an uneasy relationship with feminism, because of their role as sexual signifiers.
Synonyms
tense, awkward, strained, constrained, forced, fraught, precarious, unstable, insecure