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Definition: Unease |
UneaseNoun1. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression). 2. The trait of seeming ill at ease. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unease" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: UneaseSynonyms: disquiet (n), malaise (n), uneasiness (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Had it been found open, you would not have spoken of spiritual unease -- you would have concluded that he'd fallen. (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach) | |
Lyrics | And she'll tease you, she'll unease you ("Bette Davis Eyes"; performing artist: Kim Carnes) | |
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Civil Liberties | India | Despite these steps by the state and national governments to address communal concerns, many in the minority communities continued to express unease about BJP rule. (references) |
Economic History | Lebanon | However, there are continuing sectarian tensions and unease about Syrian and other external influences. (references) |
Hong Kong | However, increasing unemployment (now 5.3%) and uncertainty about the future have created a growing popular unease. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unease" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.81% of the time. "Unease" is used about 366 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.81% | 358 | 15,045 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 366 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "unease": self-unease. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
unease | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 心神不安 (uneasy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tumulte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unruhe (about, agitation, anxiety, concern (at, disorderliness, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, fermentation, fidget, fidgetiness, fretfulness, noise, perturbation, restiveness, restlessness, ruckus, skittishness, trouble, turbulence, uneasiness, unrest, worry), Unbehagen (anxiety, discomfiture, discomfort, discomforts, discontent, disquiet, malaise, uneasiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kényelmetlenség (discomfort, discommodity, encumbrance, fash, inconvenience, nuisance), gyötrelem (agony, anguish, chastening, distress, pang, tribulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inquietudine (anxiety, disquiet, disquietude, restlessness, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuaash (discomfort, discontent, disquiet), imnea (anxiety, care, concern, disquiet, nervousness, worry), anvea (contention, fuss, perplexity, strife, turbulence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easeunay desasosiego (anxiety, disquiet, disquietude, restlessness, unrest). (various references) spänning (excitement, kick, load, strain, stress, stretch, suspense, tension, tensity, thrill, voltage), oro (agitation, alarm, anxiety, botheration, concern, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, flutter, harassment, inquietude, jimjams, nervousness, perturbation, qualm, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry), ängslan (anxiety, fear, nervousness, pain, uneasiness). (various references) gozgalaс (disquiet, uprising). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "unease": uneases. (additional references) | |
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"Unease" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Guenage, Neafsey, Rnaase, unbase, unea, unerase, Unidas, unrase, urease, urnersee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unease" (pronounced unē"z) |
| 4 | u n ē" z | nominees. |
| 3 | -n ē" z | designees, detainees, internees, knees, pawnees, returnees, sneeze, trainees. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aeneus, usneae. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: ensue, usnea. | |
-2 letters: anes, anus, ease, sane, seen, sene. | |
-3 letters: ane, eau, ens, nae, nee, nus, sae, sau, sea, see, sen, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
-4 letters: ae, an, as, en, es, na, ne, nu, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: aeneous, avenues, eupneas, uneases. | |
+2 letters: anureses, danseuse, eucaines, eugenias, euglenas, eupnoeas, nauseate, nuclease, sauterne, squalene, undersea, uneasier, unerased, unleased, unsealed, unseamed, unseared, unseated, unweaves. | |
+3 letters: acuteness, aleurones, amusement, angeluses, atheneums, audiences, austenite, bluejeans, ceruleans, chanteuse, danseuses, denatures, denudates, dungarees, encapsule, estuarine, eudaemons, maneuvers, menopause, nauseated, nauseates, nucleases, nucleates, numerates, parvenues, renatures, sauntered, saunterer, sauternes, squalenes, suaveness, subgenera, subpenaed, tetanuses, unawesome, uncreates, underages, undereats, underseas, uneasiest, unleashed, unleashes, unpleased, unsheathe, unteaches, urethanes, vagueness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 65 61 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. . .- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n e a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0065 0061 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558071678571 |
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