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Definition: Inquietude |
InquietudeNoun1. Feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inquietude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references) |
Etymology: Inquietude \In*qui"e*tude\, noun. [Latin expression inquietudo: compare to the French expression inquietude.]. (references) |
Synonyms: InquietudeSynonyms: disquietude (n), edginess (n), uneasiness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Changeableness | Restlessness &x. Adjective: fidgets, disquiet; disquietude, inquietude; unrest; agitation. |
Discontent | Inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear. |
Fear | Nervousness, restlessness; Adjective: inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear; (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair. |
Pain | Displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet; malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inquietude |
| English words defined with "inquietude": Disquietful ♦ Unquietude. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "inquietude": Disquietful. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Inquietude" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (disquietude). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Soyer sans inquietude, Monsieur,... / J. Grandville Lith de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inquietude | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "inquietude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturbance, fash, fear, feeling, fidget, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry), ankth (anguish, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, dismay, distress, fuss, incubus, jitters, nervosity, night-hag, nightmare, obsession, overanxiety, trepidation, uneasiness, unrest). (various references) | |
Arabic | قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тревога (agitation, alarm, alert, anxiety, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, flurry, fluster, perturbation, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry), възбуждение (commotion, excitation, inflammation, tumult), възбуда (agitation, animation, boiling, emotion, excitement, fume, inflammation, jag, lather, stir), безпокойство (alarm, anxiety, bother, care, concernment, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, harassment, inconvenience, malaise, plague, qualm, ruffle, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, upset, whim-wham, worriment, worrit, worry). (various references) | |
Czech | neklid (alarm, anxiety, discomfort, disquiet, ferment, jactation, jactitation, malaise, uneasiness, unrest, worry). (various references) | |
Greek | ανησυχία (anxiety, apprehension, concern, disquiet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyugtalanság (commotion, restlessness, disquietude, fluster). (various references) | |
Manx | anshee (discord, disturbance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inquietudeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inquietação (anxiety, care, colorwash, colourwash, concern, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, fidget, fret, jactitation, misgiving, preoccupation, quicksilver, uneasiness, unrest, worry), mal-estar (brash, discomfort, discommodity, malaise, queasiness, uneasiness), ansiedade (anxiety), agitação (agitation, commotion, tumult). (various references) | |
Romanian | nelinişte (agitation, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, flurry, fret, perturbation, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worry), agitaţie (ado, agitation, bustle, clutter, commotion, dusty, emotion, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, flurry, flutter, fret, go, haste, nervousness, perturbation, restlessness, riotousness, roughness, squirm, stir, trepidation, unrest, vexation, working), îngrijorare (alarm, anxiety, concern, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fear, restlessness, thought, uneasiness, worry). (various references) | |
Russian | беспокойство (anxiety, disquiet, disquietude, harassment, unrest). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uznemirenost (disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, dither, fidget, toss, uneasiness), nemir (alarm, disturbance, restlessness, riot, turbulence, turmoil, unrest). (various references) | |
Spanish | inquietud (unrest). (various references) | |
Swedish | rastlöshet (restlessness), oro (anxiety, flutter, qualm, unrest). (various references) | |
Thai | ความกระสับกระส่าย. (various references) | |
Turkish | rahatsızlık (ailment, annoyance, complaint, discomfiture, discomfort, discomposure, disease, disquiet, distemper, disturbance, draft, dysphoria, embarrassment, fidget, harassment, ill, illness, inconvenience, indisposition, malaise, nuisance, restlessness, seediness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), kaygı (anxiety, apprehension, care, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, fear, fears, perturbation, preoccupation, solicitude, worry), huzursuzluk (discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fermentation, fidget, hump, qualm, restiveness, restlessness, sleeplessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), endişe (agitation, angst, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, doubt, fear, fears, fret, perturbation, preoccupation, qualm, scruple, solicitude, stew, suspense, uneasiness, worry). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неспокій (anxiety, bother, botheration, disquiet, fidget, trouble, unquote, unrest, worry). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lo lắng (fidgetiness, thoughtfulness, worry), sự không yên tâm (fidgetiness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inquietude": inquietudes. (additional references) | |
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"Inquietude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ingitrude. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "inquietude" (pronounced 'In*qui"e*tude'): Acerbitude, Acritude, Altitude, Amaritude, Amplitude, Anxietude, Aptitude, Assuetude, Attitude, Beatitude, Certitude, Claritude, Colatitude, Consuetude, Crassitude, Crebritude, Decrepitude, Definitude, Fessitude, finitude, Firmitude, fortitude, gratitude, habitude, hebetude, inaptitude, incertitude, ineptitude, inexactitude, infinitude, ingratitude, lassitude, Lenitude, Lentitude, Limpitude, Lippitude, magnitude, Mansuetude, Mollitude, Multitude, Necessitude, Nigritude, Overmultitude, Pinguitude, Platitude, Plenitude, Promptitude, Pulchritude, Quietude, rectitude. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-q-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: inquieted. | |
-2 letters: quietude. | |
-3 letters: detinue, inquiet, quieted, quieten, unquiet. | |
-4 letters: dunite, endite, equine, indite, queued, quinte, tineid, unique, united, untied. | |
-5 letters: diene, endue, equid, etude, indie, indue, nitid, nudie, queen, queue, quiet, quint, quite, teiid, teind, tined, tuned, tuque, undee, undue, unite, untie. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-q-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: inquietudes. | |
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