unquiet

1. 1.

   characterized by unrest or disorder

   “unquiet days of riots”

   “following the assassination of Martin Luter King ours was an unquiet nation”

   “spent an unquiet night tossing and turning”

   Antonymsquiet

   Similardisruptivesqually
2. 2.

   causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

   “spent an anxious night waiting for the test results”

   “cast anxious glances behind her”

   “those nervous moments before takeoff”

   “an unquiet mind”

   Synonymsanxiousnervousqueasyuneasy

   Similartroubled

Questions about unquiet

What does unquiet mean?

unquiet means "characterized by unrest or disorder". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unquiet?

unquiet has 3 syllables and divides as unq-ui-et under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for unquiet?

Close synonyms include anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unquiet?

The recorded antonyms are quiet.

Is unquiet a common word?

unquiet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.