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Restless   /rˈɛstləs/   Listen
adjective
Restless  adj.  
1.
Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child. "Restless revolution day by day."
2.
Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects. "Restless at home, and ever prone to range."
3.
Deprived of rest or sleep. "Restless he passed the remnants of the night."
4.
Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.
5.
Not affording rest; as, a restless chair.
Restless thrush. (Zool.) See Grinder, 3.
Synonyms: Unquiet; uneasy; disturbed; disquieted; sleepless; agitated; unsettled; roving; wandering.





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"Restless" Quotes from Famous Books



... approbation!—that would ruin all. I trust to his honour; and besides—" drawing the young lady back for the third whisper.—Miss Hunter stood suspended with one foot in air, and the other on the step; the coachman, impatient to be off, manoeuvred to make his horses restless, whilst at the same time he cried aloud—"So! so! Prancer—stand still, Peacock; ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth
... Olga was very sick. Day after day the fever held her in restless misery, and when at last it yielded to the treatment, it left her weak and worn—the shadow of her ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Camp Fire Girls' Story • I. T. Thurston
... Michelangelo: "Some time since I directed a letter to Gismondo, from whom you have probably learned that I am staying here, and, indeed, too long; for the flight of Buonarroto's pure soul to heaven, and my own need and earnest desire to come home, and Nardo's state of health, all makes me restless. The boy has been for some days out of health and pining, and I am anxious about him." It is probable that some means were found for escorting them both safely to Settignano. We hear no more about Lodovico till the period of ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds
... restless spirit stopped, and turning to Porbus and Poussin, who were speechless with admiration, ...
— The Unknown Masterpiece - 1845 • Honore De Balzac
... thoughts of ominous gloom which might have been suggested to her. She said that on first coming to us, she had found a letter on her dressing-table from a friend in Yorkshire, containing a story which had impressed her vividly ever since;—that it mingled with her dreams at night, and made her sleep restless and unrefreshing. ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


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