restless

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rest·less | \ ˈrest-ləs

Definition of restless

1 : lacking or denying rest : uneasy a restless night

2 : continuously moving : unquiet the restless sea

3 : characterized by or manifesting unrest especially of mind restless pacing also : changeful, discontented

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Synonyms & Antonyms for restless

Synonyms

Antonyms

restful

Examples of restless in a Sentence

restless children who can't sit still The audience was becoming restless. He started to feel restless and discontent in his job.

Recent Examples on the Web Raised in Haviland, a Paulding County village about 190 miles west of Cleveland, Wilson was smart, restless, and uninterested in working on her family’s farm. — Steven Litt, cleveland, 23 May 2021 Yet rather than confronting the ideological proportions of the crisis, the otherwise restless, skeptical corps of lead characters in The Premonition leap into the same privatizing logic that has wreaked so much harm in American health care. — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 11 May 2021 Saint-Germain is a nerd, but even the fighters feel similarly restless. — Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 May 2021 But after five years at the firm, Ryoo began to feel restless. — Maggie Mcgrath, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021 At the same time, Jones was restless for a career change of her own after leaving behind a job as an organizational design consultant for the federal government. — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2021 Short-Colomb was too restless for a year-round resort. — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021 The Brentano managed to breathe life into the music, which isn’t as engaging as Schumann’s piano pieces, by underscoring its restless rhythmic energies in the second movement and stretching the tempo like putty at times for dramatic effect. — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2021 Nomadland, which stars Frances McDormand as a restless itinerant worker who lives out of her van, is also up for four other awards tonight. — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2021

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