Restless

Definitions: Restless

Restless

Adjective

1. Unable to relax or be still; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "itchy for excitement"; "a restless child".

2. Worried and uneasy.

3. Ceaselessly in motion; "the restless sea"; "the restless wind".

4. Marked by a lack of quiet; not conducive to rest; "spent a restless night"; "fell into an uneasy sleep".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "restless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Restless

Activity

Bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering; busy, busy as hen with one chicken.

Agitation

Adjective: shaking; Verb: agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory; saltatoric; quasative; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory, convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter.

Changeableness

Unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating; Verb: restless; agitated; erratic, fickle; irresolute; capricious; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient; wavering.

Excitability

Unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy; chafing; Verb:

Fear

Afraid, fearful; timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint-hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety; more frightened than hurt.

Motion

Adjective: moving; Verb: in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless; (changeable); nomadic; erratic.

Violence

Phrase: furor arma ministrat; "blown with restless violence round about the pendent world".

Crosswords: Restless

Come on. You don't think he ever got restless as a kid? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

A little restless but I got off eventually. (A View to a Kill; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Come in, I've been expecting you There's a knock on the door and love walks through And lights a fire and smiles a smile As if love were going to stay a while And the fire breathes and weaves its spell But then love runs out of lies to tell For love is restless, love's a flirt Love has places to go and people to hurt So here's the shovel to smother the flame Tomorrow you'll barely remember my name And I'll try to forget you, my dearest one As a prisoner tries to forget the sun For life holds no purpose, and love holds no charms Since I beheld you in another's arms. ('Til There Was You; writing credit: Winnie Holzman)

We were just young and restless and bored (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger)

And so restless nights (No More "I Love You's"; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

Turnaround, Every now and then I get a little bit restless and I dream of something wild (TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART; performing artist: Bonnie Tyler)

It's those restless hearts that never mend (New Kid In Town; performing artist: EAGLES)

Restless hearts (FAITHFULLY; performing artist: Journey)

The Young and the Restless (1973)

Restless Knights (1935)

The Restless Sax (1931)

Restless Youth (1928)

The Restless Sex (1920)

When She Cries (performing artist: Restless Heart)

I'LL STILL BE LOVING YOU� (performing artist: Restless Heart�)

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

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Restless Leg Syndrome (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Cooking With the Young and the Restless (reference)

• Hadrian: The Restless Emperor (Roman Imperial Biographies) (reference)

• Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams Official Strategy Guide (reference)

• Staying Put : Making a Home in a Restless World (reference)

• The Restless Universe: Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Restless Souls (reference)

• Restless Spirits (reference)

• Xzibit - Restless Xposed (reference)

• Restless (reference)

• Savage Earth: The Restless Planet (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Restless Spirits (reference)

• Silverman: Restless Winds/Speaking Alone/Passing Fancies/Shapey: Kroslish Sonate/Concertante No.1 (reference)

• Young & Restless (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

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Our restless earth.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went.

He was dressed in a blouse which was in part a capote, was restless and daring, looking behind and before as he went.

The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.

Soft fingers began to tap the sill of the car window, and hard fingers tightened on the restless drawing sticks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Treatment for restless legs syndrome is symptomatic. (references)

The most common sleep disorders include insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and narcolepsy. (references)

Sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, and insomnia can cause problem sleepiness. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "restless": restless being ♦ restless creature ♦ Restless leg syndrome ♦ restless legs ♦ restless legs syndrome ♦ restless motion ♦ restless night ♦ restless person ♦ restless sleep ♦ restless thrush. Additional references.

Ending with "restless": ever-restless.

Albanian

nervoz (edgy, excitable, fidgety, irritable, jittery, nervous, neural), i shqetësuar (agitated, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, distempered, distraught, distressed, disturbed, fidgety, flurried, flustered, jittery, preoccupied, troubled, troublous, uneasy, vexed, worried). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضطرب (confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, ill at ease, jumbled, mixed up, muddled, restive, rough, troubled, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, upset), ‏هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, phrenic, rambunctious, rampant, rapturous, restive, riotous, rough, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), ‏قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry), ‏عصبي (apprehensive, edgy, fidgety, fretful, jitterbug, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, neuralgic, on edge, pithy, spooky, testy, up the wall, uptight), ‏ضيق الصدر (impatient, pique). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неспокоен (anxious, apprehensive, broken, nervous, nervy, raucous, restive, sleepless, spooky, uneasy, unrestful, unsound, worried, yeasty), нервен (edgy, fidgety, jerky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, neurotic, on edge, ratty, snuffy, spooky, windy). (various references)

Chinese 

伀 (agitated), 忪 (agitated), 不安定, 不安 (disturbed, intranquil, uneasy, unpeaceful, unstable, worried). (various references)

Czech

netrpìlivý (eager, impatient), nepokojný (fitful, troubled, uneasy), neklidný (bumpy, choppy, disturbed, fitful, restive, unearthly, uneasy, unresting). (various references)

Danish

restless legs-syndrom (Ekbom syndrome, restless legs syndrome), restless legs (restless legs), uro i benene (Ekbom syndrome, restless legs syndrome). (various references)

Dutch

restless legs (restless legs), stramientjes (Ekbom syndrome, restless legs syndrome), anxietas tibiarum (Ekbom syndrome, restless legs syndrome). (various references)

Farsi 

بی قرار (Variable). (various references)

Finnish

rauhaton (uneasy), tuskainen (filled with agony), levoton (anxious, uneasy). (various references)

French

remuant, inquiet, impatient, agité (restive), énervé (restive). (various references)

German

ruhelos (unquiet, unrest, wakefully), rastlos (restive, tireless, unresting, untiring). (various references)

Greek 

ανήσυχοσ (anxious, concerned, fidgety, restive, squirmy, uneasy, unquiet, worried, worrisome), αεικίνητοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לא שקט (restive), חסר מנוחה, נטול מנוחה. (various references)

Hungarian

álmatlan (sleepless, wakeful). (various references)

Indonesian

rusuh (disturbed), bergundah (anxious, depressed). (various references)

Italian

irrequieto (fidgety, restive), inquieto (afraid, disquiet, flurries, harasses, nervous, tormented, uneasy, unsettles, worried), incessante (ceaseless, continuous, continuously, everlasting, incessant, nonstop, unabating, unceasing, unending, uninterrupted, unremitting, unresting), agitato (agitated, fussy, haywire, hectic, jittery, jumpy, nervous, overwrought, restive, troubled, turbulent, upset, wild). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

気忙しい (fidgety, fussy), それ迄 (all together, careless, en masse, extortion, feel chilly, fidgety, in a body, in groups, in succession, like that, nervous, rude, shiver, shudder, slovenly, sponging, such, that sort of, That's it, That's the end of the matter, thrill, uneasy, Until then), 心忙しい , ちゅうちゅう鳴く (a little, dabble, easily accomplished, frequently, hobbling, make a pass at, meddle, now and then, occasionally, often, to chirp, to squeak, to twitter, toddling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きぜわしい (fidgety, fussy), そわそわ (fidgety, nervous, uneasy), こころぜわしい, ちょこちょこ (easily accomplished, hobbling, toddling). (various references)

Korean 

활동 (Action, Active, Activities, Activity, kinetic, kinetics). (various references)

Manx

neufeagh, neuaashagh (awkward, difficult, discontented, uneasy), graue-aashagh (uneasy). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

insone (wakeful), inquieto (agitated, anxious, bustling, disquiet, edger, fidgety, frantic, fretful, fussy, nervous, preoccupy, qualmish, restive, troubled, uneasy, unquiet), desassossegado (nervous, unquiet), agitado (agitated, astir, bustling, choppy, eventide, fidgety, frantic, fretful, fussy, hectic, jumpy, rough, sleepless, trembling, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled, working). (various references)

Romanian

obositor (backbreaking, hard, irksome, lingering, operose, painful, strenuous, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill, wearing, wearisome, weary), neliniştit (agitated, anxious, anxiously, broken, concerned, disquiet, fidgety, restive, sorrowful, troubled, uneasily, uneasy, unquiet, unquietly, upset, worried), neastâmpãrat (agitated, bustling, fretting, impish, mischief, mischievous, naughty, prankish), nãrãvaş (bad tempered, balky, flighty, restive, unmanageable, vicious), fãrã odihnã (indefatigably, sabbathless), agitat (agitated, agog, angry, billowy, choppy, excited, excitedly, fevered, feverish, fractious, fretful, fussy, hectic, irritated, nervous, snappish, tempestuous, unsettled), îngrijorat (alarmed, anxious, auxious, careful, concerned, disquiet, sorrowful, thoughtful, troubled). (various references)

Russian 

неугомонный (fidgety, rambunctious), неспокойный (blue, choppy). (various references)

Scottish

luaineach (fickle, inconstant, uncertain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stalno u pokretu, nestašan (be naughty, frisky, kittenish, mischievous, puckish, rogue, unruly), nespokojan, nemiran (sleepless, troublous). (various references)

Spanish

turbulento (disorderly, mutinous, obstreperous, squally, stirring, troubled, troublous, turbulent, unruly, wild), movido (abuzz, active, disposed, labored, laboured, swinging), intranquilo (choppy, ill at ease, restive, uneasy, unsettled, worried), insomne (sleepless, wakeful), inquieto (agitated, anxious, apprehensive, disquiet, edgy, fidgety, fretful, ill at ease, nervous, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, worried), descontentadizo, azogado (fidgety, quicksilvering), andariego (rover). (various references)

Swedish

rastlös (busy, fidgety, footloose), orolig (alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, fussy, turbulent, uneasy, unsettled, worried, yeasty). (various references)

Turkish

yerinde duramayan (beany, fidgety, restive), vesveseli (gun-shy, solicitous, speculative), tez canlı (fast, impatient, impetuous, sharp, swift), kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), kıpır kıpır (beany, fidgety, humming, like a jack-in-the-box, restive, restlessly, snappy), huzursuz (anxious, ill at ease, on pins and needles, out of sorts, peaceless, restive, sleepless, tremulous, uneasy, unrestful, unsettled, worrisome), hareketli (active, alive and kicking, animate, bouncing, brisk, bustling, full of action, go-go, like a jack-in-the-box, live, mobile, moving, rattling, shifting, sliding, swinging, zippy), dalgalı (alternating, billowy, choppy, corrugated, flowing, rough, undate, undated, undulated, undulating, waved, wavy). (various references)

Ukranian 

тривожно (anxiously), тривожний (alarming, anxious, distressing, uncomfortable), неспокійно (nervously, obstreperously, uneasily), невгамовний (fidgety, immitigable, indomitable, rambunctious, sleepless, unbridled, wild). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thao thức; bồn chồn, luôn luôn động đậy, không nghỉ, không ngủ được, không ngừng không yên, hiếu động không nghỉ được, áy náy (anxious, anxiously). (various references)

Welsh

rhwyfus, anhywaith (intractable, refractory, wild), anesmwyth (uneasy), amrygyr (busy), aflonydd (anxious, unquiet). (various references)

concussa, concussae, concussum, fluctuabat, fluctuantem, fluctuantes, fluctuate, fluctuatur, inquiete, inquieti, inquietum, sollicitus, turbatus, turbulentus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "restless": restlessly, restlessness, restlessnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "restless": crestless. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Restless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estless, rectless, restress, restressed, rustless. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tressels.

-1 letter: streels, tressel, tresses.

-2 letters: esters, lesser, reests, relets, resets, serest, sleets, steels, steers, steles, steres, streel, stress.

-3 letters: erses, esses, ester, leers, leets, reels, reest, relet, reset, rests, seels, seers, seres, sleet, steel, steer, stele, stere, teels, teles, terse, trees, tress.

-4 letters: eels, else, erst, eses, leer, lees, leet, less, lest, lets, reel, rees.

+1 letter: crestless, streusels.

+2 letters: lusterless, resistless, restlessly, resultless, stressless, strifeless, stripeless.

+3 letters: alertnesses, artlessness, bestsellers, electresses, listerioses, peristalses, restfulness, saleratuses, servantless, shelterless, shutterless, straplesses.

+4 letters: adulteresses, artfulnesses, asteriskless, cloistresses, clothespress, establishers, loosestrifes, masterliness, minstrelsies, otoscleroses, paltrinesses, portlinesses, priestliness, proselytises, resistlessly, resoluteness, restlessness, rootlessness, ruthlessness, sculptresses, shirtsleeves, sterlingness, sultrinesses, supersleuths, tirelessness.

+5 letters: artlessnesses, brittlenesses, clotheshorses, courtlinesses, desultoriness, earthlinesses, eternalnesses, extrasystoles, fertilenesses, fretfulnesses, fruitlessness, gristlinesses, heartlessness, hurtfulnesses, leptospiroses, letterpresses, listenerships, literalnesses, masterfulness, naturalnesses, neutralnesses, reestablishes, relatednesses, repletenesses, resentfulness, restfulnesses, ruthfulnesses, structureless, superclusters, tearfulnesses, tremulousness, trolleybusses, versatileness, waterlessness, worthlessness.

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