Uneasy \Un*eas"y\, a.
1. Not easy; difficult. [R.]
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Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily
understood. --Boyle.
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The road will be uneasy to find. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like;
disquieted; perturbed.
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The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come. --Pope.
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3. Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not
graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.
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4. Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping;
disagreeable; unpleasing. "His uneasy station." --Milton.
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A sour, untractable nature makes him uneasy to those
who approach him. --Addison.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
uneasy
adj 1: lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or
reassurance; "farmers were uneasy until rain finally
came"; "uneasy about his health"; "gave an uneasy
laugh"; "uneasy lies the head that wears the crown";
"an uneasy coalition government"; "an uneasy calm";
"an uneasy silence fell on the group" [ant: easy]
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" [syn: anxious, nervous, unquiet]
3: marked by a lack of quiet; not conducive to rest; "spent a
restless night"; "fell into an uneasy sleep" [syn: restless]
4: not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner;
"awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among
eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with
strangers" [syn: awkward, ill at ease(p)]
WordNet (r) 2.0
161 Moby Thesaurus words for "uneasy":
abashed, afflicted, agitated, all nerves, all-overish, ambiguous,
anguished, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, anxioused up,
apprehensive, beefing, bellyaching, beset, bitching, borderline,
bored, bothered, breathless, careful, cast down, chafing,
chagrined, chapfallen, cheerless, complaining, complaintful,
concerned, confused, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, depressed,
disappointed, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted,
discontented, disgruntled, disgusted, displeased, disquieted,
dissatisfied, distressed, disturbed, doubtable, eager, edgy,
embarrassed, envious, excitable, excited, faultfinding, fearful,
feverish, fidgety, flurried, flustered, fluttery, foreboding,
fretful, fretting, frightened, fussy, grim, griping, grouchy,
grousing, growling, grumbling, hasty, high-strung, hopped-up,
hung up, ill at ease, impatient, impetuous, in a lather,
in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, irritable, jittery, joyless,
jumpy, malcontent, malcontented, misgiving, mortified, murmuring,
muttering, nauseated, nauseous, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy,
on edge, on tenterhooks, out of countenance, out of humor,
overanxious, overapprehensive, overstrung, panicky, peevish,
perturbed, petulant, pleasureless, precarious, prey to malaise,
put-out, put-upon, querulant, querulous, rebellious, repelled,
resentful, restive, restless, revolted, ruffled, sad, shaken,
shaken up, shaky, sickened, solicitous, squirming, squirmy,
stirred up, strained, suffering angst, sulky, suspect, suspenseful,
tense, troubled, troublous, turbulent, unaccepting,
unaccommodating, uncertain, uncomfortable, unfulfilled,
ungratified, unhappy, unpatient, unpeaceful, unquiet, unrestful,
unsatisfied, unsettled, unsure, upset, uptight, whiny, worried,
zealous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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