unrest

Other forms of unrest

plural

unrests·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unrest

What does unrest mean?

unrest means "a state of agitation or turbulent change or development". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unrest?

unrest has 2 syllables: un-rest. The stress falls on "rest". In IPA it is /ənˈɹɛst/.

What is another word for unrest?

Close synonyms include agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness. 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.

Is unrest a common word?

unrest is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unrest?

3 words rhyme with unrest. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.