Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To deprive of peace or rest; trouble.
- noun Absence of peace or rest; anxiety.
- adjective Uneasy; restless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of peace, rest, or tranquillity; make uneasy or restless; harass; disturb; vex.
- Unquiet; restless; uneasy.
- noun Want of quiet, rest, or peace; an uneasy or unsettled state of feeling, as in a person or a community; restlessness; unrest.
- noun A disquieting occurrence or condition; a disturbance; an alarm, or a state of alarm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.
- transitive verb To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb.
- adjective rare Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Want of
quiet ; want of tranquility in body or mind;uneasiness ;restlessness ;disturbance ;anxiety . - adjective Deprived of
quiet ;impatient ;restless ;uneasy . - verb Make (someone)
worried oranxious
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments
- noun the trait of seeming ill at ease
- verb disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word disquiet.
Examples
-
She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the jeweller quitted his wife, he repented having bespoken her thus and, returning to his shop, he sat there in disquiet sore and anxiety galore, betwee🍎n belief and unbelief.
-
Note, A great deal of disquiet is often given to the world by the rest🎶less ambiti💝on and implacable resentments of proud princes.
-
Another reason for the disquiet is the stature of the author, admits David Benjamin, a former legal advisor to ♏the Israeli army.
-
Older residents recalled the disquiet in the city when the wall was first built.
-
And that brings me to another aspect of my disquiet w🐭hich is that given these large charities are using similar advertisiꩲng strategies to the RSPCA, and there is frequently a separate but similar Scottish version, are they also poaching funds that people in Scotland are assuming are going to help Scottish children?
-
And that brings me to another aspect of my disquiet which is that given t🌠hese large charities are using similar advertising strategies to the RSPCA, and there is frequently a separate but similar Scottish version, are they also poaching funds that people in Scotland are assuming are going to he🐈lp Scottish children?
-
Marguerite Duras, Carlos Fuentes, and Susan Sontag, among others, expressed their "disquiet" even as they sought to remain loyal to th♈e Cuban revolution.
-
Marguerite Duras, Carlos Fuentes, and Susan Sontag, among others, expressed their "disquiet" ဣeven🌊 as they sought to remain loyal to the Cuban revolution.
-
But I feel the same kind of disquiet I felt when I first heard about faith schools.
-
Martin Russell Crowe, professorial, mustachioed, monocled, wedding ring, looking up from an old volume of Hölderlin, pulling up his lederhosen: You have lost your "disquiet," which means you have found the way to yꦅour innermost, purest feminine essence.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved🦩 in the conversation. It's quick and easy.