Another word for restless
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Adjective
Affording no quiet, repose, or rest
- Not in a state of order or calmness; disturbed:
- Likely to change or vary; variable:
- Not determined or resolved:
- Emotionally or mentally restless or uneasy.
- Characterized by unrest or disorder; turbulent.
- Lacking a sense of security; anxious or apprehensive:
- Affording no ease or reassurance:
- Awkward or unsure in manner; constrained:
Feeling or exhibiting nervous tension
- Tense; nervous:
- Rigidly conventional, as in manners, opinions, and tastes:
- Characterized by jerky or spasmodic motion:
- Nervous; jittery.
- Tightly stretched; taut.
- In a state of nervous tension or mental strain:
- Causing or characterized by nervous tension or mental strain:
- Moving quickly and lightly; lively.
- Restlessly active or nervous; restive.
- Undependably variable; mercurial or fickle.
- Uneasily impatient or hard to control under restriction, opposition, criticism, or delay:
- Characterized by impatience or an absence of calm; unsettled:
- Refusing to move. Used of a horse or other animal.
- Of or relating to the nerves or nervous system:
- Stemming from or affecting the nerves or nervous system:
- Easily agitated or distressed; high-strung or jumpy.
- Characterized by fitful, jerky movements.
- On edge; nervous.
- Having or feeling nervous unease:
- Marked by jittering movements:
- Tending to fidget.
- Creating unnecessary fuss.
- Nervous or irritable:
- Having a sharp or biting edge:
- Daring, provocative, or trend-setting:
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Another word for restless
Modifier
Not content when still
- Restless or impatient; fidgety:
- Nervous; apprehensive:
- Having or feeling nervous unease:
- Marked by jittering movements:
- simple past tense and past participle of rattle
- Marked by trembling, quivering, or shaking:
- Marked by a rapid varying between pitches or tones:
- Timid or fearful:
- The motion of something that twitches.
- compulsive birdwatching by people (twitchers) who travel long distances to see rare species
- Present participle of twitch.
- Inclined to be vexed or troubled; peevish.
- Marked by worry and distress; troublesome:
- shaken; perturbed; excited
- Unable to wait patiently or tolerate delay; restless.
- Unable to endure irritation or opposition; intolerant:
- Expressing or produced by impatience:
- Uneasily impatient or hard to control under restriction, opposition, criticism, or delay:
- Characterized by impatience or an absence of calm; unsettled:
- Refusing to move. Used of a horse or other animal.
- simple past tense and past participle of flurry
- Not in a state of order or calmness; disturbed:
- Likely to change or vary; variable:
- Not determined or resolved:
- Lacking a sense of security; anxious or apprehensive:
- Affording no ease or reassurance:
- Awkward or unsure in manner; constrained:
- Emotionally or mentally restless or uneasy.
- Characterized by unrest or disorder; turbulent.
- Of or relating to the nerves or nervous system:
- Stemming from or affecting the nerves or nervous system:
- Easily agitated or distressed; high-strung or jumpy.
- Characterized by fitful, jerky movements.
- On edge; nervous.
- Unsettled, broken up, or altered in structure or function:
- Being or resulting from being emotionally or mentally troubled:
- Occurring in or characterized by intermittent bursts, as of activity; irregular:
- Marked by a lack of sleep:
- Unable to sleep.
- Always alert or active; never resting:
- Relating to or resembling a fever.
- Having a fever or symptoms characteristic of a fever.
- Causing or tending to cause fever.
- Moving quickly and lightly; lively.
- Restlessly active or nervous; restive.
- Undependably variable; mercurial or fickle.
- Tending to fidget.
- Creating unnecessary fuss.
Not content with conditions
- Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved:
- Characterized by or resulting from willful opposition or resistance to what is right, expected, or reasonable:
- Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
- Obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate.
- Not submissive to authority:
- Inclined to make trouble; unruly.
- Having a peevish nature; cranky.
- Stubbornly resistant to or defiant of authority or guidance.
- Difficult to manage or deal with:
- Resistant to chemical decomposition; decomposing extremely slowly.
- Showing or characterized by obstinate resistance to authority or control:
- Difficult to melt or work; resistant to heat:
- Resistant to treatment:
- Full of, characterized by, or inclined to feel indignant ill will.
- living apart because no longer in a loving or amicable relationship
- Resentful and rebellious, especially against authority.
- Feeling or showing anger; incensed or enraged:
- Indicative of or resulting from anger:
- Having a menacing aspect; threatening:
- shaken; perturbed; excited
- Being in a state of excitement; emotionally aroused; stirred.
- Being at an energy level higher than the ground state.
- Irritated, distressed, or annoyed:
- Persistently unresolved or much debated:
- Restlessly unhappy; malcontent.
- Uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter; worried.
- Attended with, showing, or causing anxiety:
- Eagerly or earnestly desirous.
- simple past tense and past participle of disquiet
- Lacking a sense of security; anxious or apprehensive:
- Affording no ease or reassurance:
- Awkward or unsure in manner; constrained:
- Unsettled, broken up, or altered in structure or function:
- Being or resulting from being emotionally or mentally troubled:
See also:Not content with a settled life
- Present participle of traipse.
- Present participle of gallivant.
- Roaming about for pleasure.
- Present participle of gad.
- The act of one who gads, or moves about frivolously.
- Often or habitually roaming; wandering.
- Extended over an irregular area; sprawling:
- Lengthy and digressive:
- Present participle of range.
- Changing or capable of changing position:
- Relating to or involved in a transfer of furnishings from one location to another:
- Causing or producing motion.
- Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty:
- One who travels from place to place.
- Walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot.
- Of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of Aristotle, who conducted discussions while walking about in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
- One who walks from place to place; an itinerant.
- Having no attachments or ties; free to do as one pleases.
- of, characteristic of, or like nomads or their way of life
- a customer's use of a cellular phone outside the region served by his or her carrier
- Not in a state of order or calmness; disturbed:
- Likely to change or vary; variable:
- Not determined or resolved:
- Restlessly unhappy; malcontent.
- that wanders; moving from place to place; roaming, roving, straying, etc.
- nomadic
- winding
- Passing with time; transitory:
- Remaining in a place only a brief time:
- Decaying with time, especially as a simple exponential function of time.
- A continuous strand of loosely twisted and drawn fibers, such as wool, flax, silk, or cotton, ready to be spun.
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