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Inquietude

Definition: Inquietude

Inquietude

Noun

1. 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: Inquietude

Synonyms: disquietude (n), edginess (n), uneasiness (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Inquietude

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Inquietude

English words defined with "inquietude": DisquietfulUnquietude. (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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Commercial Usage: Inquietude

DomainTitle

Books

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Photo Album: Inquietude

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Soyer sans inquietude, Monsieur,... / J. Grandville Lith de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Inquietude

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

inquietude

8
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Modern Translation: Inquietude

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Inquietude

Derivations

Words beginning with "inquietude": inquietudes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Inquietude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ingitrude. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Inquietude"

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)

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Anagrams: Inquietude

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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