Unrest

Definition: Unrest

Unrest

Noun

1. A state of agitation or turbulent change or development: "the political ferment produced a new leadership"; "social unrest".

2. A feeling of restless agitation.

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

Date "unrest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Unrest

Changeableness

Restlessness &x. Adjective: fidgets, disquiet; disquietude, inquietude; unrest; agitation.

Motion

Noun: motion, movement, move; going; Verb: unrest.

Crosswords: Unrest

No, but you freed his spirit, and after a century of unrest he saw you as one of his oppressors. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

The House of Unrest (1931)

Unrest (1920)

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Books

• Creating Reality - We Must Learn To Get Along. Pure And Simple. -- a CIVIL UNREST e-Column [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Democracy In Action - A Post-September 11 World Trade Center? -- a CIVIL UNREST e-Column [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• October Falling - Decisions Now Could Affect All Tomorrows -- a CIVIL UNREST e-Column [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Tales of Unrest (reference)

• The Attlee and Churchill Administrations and Industrial Unrest, 1945-55 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Unrest (reference)

• Unrest [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Gosh! No wonder cities are full of unrest --. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Whereas the League of Nations has for its object the establishment of universal peace, and such a peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice; And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship, and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled; and an improvement of those conditions is urgently required: as, for example, by the regulation of the hours of work, including the establishment of a maximum working day and week, the regulation of the labour supply, the prevention of unemployment, the provision of an adequate living wage, the protection of the worker against sickness, disease and injury arising out of his employment, the protection of children, young persons and women, provision for old age and injury, protection of the interests of workers when employed in countries other than their own recognition of the principle of freedom of association, the organisation of vocational and technical education and other measures; Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own countries; The HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, moved by sentiments of justice and humanity as well as by the desire to secure the permanent peace of the world, agree to the following: CHAPTER l. (reference)

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Bodily unrest and chill and weariness beset him, routing his thoughts.

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Health

Yes. Epidemics of typhus and louse-borne relapsing fever have been caused by body lice. Though typhus is no longer widespread, epidemics still occur during times of war, civil unrest, natural disasters, in refugee camps, and prisons where people live crowded together in unsanitary conditions. (references)

Business

Northwestern China has been troubled by occasional unrest among minority ethnic and religious groups. (references)

In May security officials in a major northeastern city responded to worker unrest by issuing a public notice banning all demonstrations. (references)

This is justified on the grounds that the general population might misunderstand a bank failure and assume that many others would fail as well, resulting in social unrest. (references)

Civil Liberties

Algeria

The event protested government actions in quelling unrest in the Kabylie region. (references)

Indonesia

Unrest in Papua caused numerous persons to leave their homes in Wasior district and other areas. (references)

Venezuela

Then-Foreign Minister Rangel accused Aure of being involved in a conspiracy to incite unrest within the military. (references)

Economic History

Armenia

Kocharian was successful in riding out the unrest. (references)

Guyana

The latter half of 1999 was free of any serious unrest. (references)

Georgia

Shortages of electricity have resulted in public unrest. (references)

Human Rights

South Africa

The unrest had started after the parties began to encroach on each other's territory. (references)

Guatemala

Prison officials reported frequent escape attempts and other manifestations of prisoner unrest. (references)

Congo

Specific incidences of violence were difficult to verify due to the general unrest in the region. (references)

Indigenous People

Chile

The commission met during the year and is charged with issuing a report by January 2003. The number of incidents of unrest increased compared with the previous year. (references)

Minorities

Vietnam

For example, several high-level government officials visited the area after the unrest to hear the grievances of ethnic minorities. (references)

Lesotho

In past years, civil unrest and riots targeted persons of Asian descent; however, there were no similar incidents reported during the year. (references)

Political Economy

ECUADOR

Ecuador does not have a high level of labor unrest. (references)

BANGLADESH

Political unrest and a deteriorating law and order situation also discourage domestic and foreign investors. (references)

Guyana

A period of social unrest and insecurity, which occasionally turned violent, followed the March 2001 general elections. (references)

Political Rights

India

In Assam's state assembly elections in May, the state government advised candidates not to campaign after sunset due to unrest. (references)

Guinea

The 1998 presidential election was marred by violence and disruption of opposition campaigning before the polling, by civil unrest after the polling, by widespread and diverse irregularities that tended to favor the incumbent, and by the arrest and detention of major opposition candidates during the vote-counting process. (references)

Travel

Uk

Some degree of civil unrest may continue for the foreseeable future. (references)

Worker Rights

Oman

The law stipulates that "it is absolutely forbidden to provoke a strike for any reason." Labor unrest is rare. (references)

Philippines

Despite sporadic labor unrest and some organizing efforts, union successes in the SEZ's have been few and marginal. (references)

Brazil

Growing labor unrest among the police has prompted the Government to consider legislation that would limit association among uniformed police and the unionization of civil police. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "unrest": agrarian unrest ♦ campus unrest ♦ social unrest. Additional references.

Beginning with "unrest": unrest-which.

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, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, vexation, worry), merak (anxiety, care, carefulness, concern, disturbance, pains, preoccupation, stew, worry), ankth (anguish, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, dismay, distress, fuss, incubus, inquietude, jitters, nervosity, night-hag, nightmare, obsession, overanxiety, trepidation, uneasiness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتنة شغب أو محنة (commotion, disorder, distress, tumult), ‏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, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, upset, worried, worry), ‏غير متحفظ (open, outgoing, unreserved), ‏إضطراب (coil, disorder, distraction, disturbance, dust, flurry, flutter, ill, nervousness, perturbation, ramp, rout, ruction, ruffle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, uproar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смут (alarms and excursions, disturbance, perturbation, pother, turmoil), размирица (convulsion, perturbation, riot, trouble, tumult, turmoil), тревога (agitation, alarm, alert, anxiety, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, flurry, fluster, inquietude, perturbation, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, worriment, worry), вълнение (agitation, commotion, dither, emotion, excitement, ferment, flurry, gurgitation, heartbeat, lather, nervousness, perturbation, pother, pulse, roughness, snit, stir, surge, tear, throb, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, upset), неспокойствие (nervousness), притеснение (discomfort, oppression, rush). (various references)

Chinese 

動蕩 (turmoil, upheaval), 不安 (Disquieting). (various references)

Czech

nepokoj (commotion, disquiet, turbulence, turmoil), neklid (alarm, anxiety, discomfort, disquiet, ferment, inquietude, jactation, jactitation, malaise, uneasiness, worry). (various references)

Danish

bevaegetrang (displacement impulse, motor unrest). (various references)

Dutch

storing (disquiet, disturbance, hindrance, interference, trouble). (various references)

Esperanto

perturbo (disquiet, disturbance, interference). (various references)

Farsi 

ناارامی (Disquiet), اضطراب (Anguish, Anxiety, Commotion, Feeze, Worry), اشفتگی (Chaos, Consternation, Disorder, Nonplus, Rummage, Tumble, Turmoil), اشوب (Alarm, Commotion, Convulsion, Misrule, Revolution, Riot, Ruckus, Sedition, Tumult, Turbulence), بیقراری (Malaise), بیتابی . (various references)

Finnish

rauhattomuus (restlessness). (various references)

French

troubles, inquiétude (uneasiness, unquiet), fermentation, agitation. (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, unease, uneasiness, worry). (various references)

Greek 

ανησυχία (anxiety, apprehension, concern, concernment, dismay, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, nervousness, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, worriment, worry), αναταραχή (agitation, commotion, flurry, turmoil). (various references)

Hebrew 

אי שקט (disquiet, restlessness). (various references)

Hungarian

nyugtalanság (apprehension, commotion, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, distraction, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, fret, inquietude, misgiving, puzzlement, restlessness, throes, uneasiness). (various references)

Indonesian

kerusuhan (distress, disturbance, riot, turbulence), keresahan (anxiety, restlessness, uneasiness), kekeruhan (cloudiness, muddiness, turbidity), kegelisahan (concern, discomfort, disquiet, nerve, nervousness, perturbation, worry). (various references)

Italian

commosso (affected, moved, touched, uptight), agitazione (abetment, agitation, anxiety, bother, commotion, disturbance, excitement, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, fret, fussiness, restlessness, state, stir, turmoil, twitter, uneasiness, upheaval). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

動揺 (agitation, commotion, disturbance, excitement, oscillation, pitching, rolling, shaking, trembling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふお�" (impropriety, report of a death, turbulence), どうよう (agitation, children's song, commotion, disturbance, equal to, excitement, identical, like, nursery rhyme, oscillation, pitching, rolling, same, shaking, trembling), み� れ (disorder, disturbance). (various references)

Korean 

불안 (Anxieties, Anxiety). (various references)

Manx

boirey chynskylagh (industrial unrest). (various references)

Pig Latin

estunray

Portuguese

perturbação (blankness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, discomposure, disquiet, disturbance, embarrassment, flurry, fret, fuddle, gall, interference, perturbation, ruffle, trepidation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval), inquietação (anxiety, care, colorwash, colourwash, concern, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, fidget, fret, inquietude, jactitation, misgiving, preoccupation, quicksilver, uneasiness, worry), desassossego (preoccupation, uneasiness), agitação (agitation, commotion, disturbance, emotion, excitation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, freak-out, fret, furor, furore, fuss, inquietude, perturbation, popple, racket, rattle, riot, ruffle, rush, shake, state, tempest, to-do, tremor, trepidation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval). (various references)

Romanian

tulburare (agitation, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfort, disorder, disturbance, excitement, feeling, flap, flurry, fluster, interruption, invasion, perturbation, revolt, trouble, vexation), nelinişte (agitation, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, flurry, fret, inquietude, perturbation, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, worry), frãmântare (agitation, anxiety, discomposure, fermentation, fluster, flutter, fret, fretfulness, kneading, torture, trepidation, worry), agitaţie (ado, agitation, bustle, clutter, commotion, dusty, emotion, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, flurry, flutter, fret, go, haste, inquietude, nervousness, perturbation, restlessness, riotousness, roughness, squirm, stir, trepidation, vexation, working). (various references)

Russian 

беспокойство (ado, Angst, anxiety, bother, botheration, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, fidget, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, restlessness, taking, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, uneasyness, worry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nespokojstvo, nemir (alarm, disturbance, inquietude, restlessness, riot, turbulence, turmoil). (various references)

Spanish

molestia (annoyance, awkwardness, bedevilment, bother, botheration, bug, disquiet, disturbance, hassle, hindrance, imposition, inconvenience, interference, nuisance, trouble, worry), inquietud (anxiety, inquietude, restlessness, uneasiness, worry). (various references)

Swedish

oro (agitation, alarm, anxiety, botheration, concern, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, flutter, harassment, inquietude, jimjams, nervousness, perturbation, qualm, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, unease, uneasiness, worriment, worry). (various references)

Turkish

rahatsızlık (ailment, annoyance, complaint, discomfiture, discomfort, discomposure, disease, disquiet, distemper, disturbance, draft, dysphoria, embarrassment, fidget, harassment, ill, illness, inconvenience, indisposition, inquietude, malaise, nuisance, restlessness, seediness, trouble, uneasiness), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), huzursuzluk (discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fermentation, fidget, hump, inquietude, qualm, restiveness, restlessness, sleeplessness, trouble, uneasiness). (various references)

Turkmen 

ynjalyksyzlyk, oсюuksyzluk, ьnji (anxiety, trouble). (various references)

Ukrainian

неспокій (anxiety, bother, botheration, disquiet, fidget, inquietude, trouble, unquote, worry), заворушення (confusion, disorders, ruction). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng náo động sự không yên tâm, tình trạng không yên ổn, sự lo âu (concern, concernment, feeze), sự băn khoăn (hover). (various references)

Welsh

anesmywthder (uneasiness), aflonyddwch (disturbance). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "unrest": unrested, unrestful, unrestored, unrestrained, unrestrainedly, unrestrainedness, unrestrainednesses, unrestraint, unrestraints, unrestricted, unrests. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Unrest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: funrest, hunwreste, munroist, Ornest, undrest, unnest, unrase, unrent, unrestful, unvest, urest, Urnasch, Urnst. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tuners.

-1 letter: nerts, nurse, rents, runes, runts, stern, terns, trues, tuner, tunes, turns, unset.

-2 letters: erns, erst, nest, nets, nuts, rent, rest, rets, rues, rune, runs, runt, ruse, rust, ruts, sent, stun, suer, suet, sure, tens, tern, true, tune, tuns, turn, urns, user.

-3 letters: ens, ern, ers, net, nus, nut, res, ret, rue, run, rut.

+1 letter: brunets, bunters, burnets, encrust, entrust, gurnets, hunters, munster, natures, neuters, nutsier, nutters, punster, punters, retunes, returns, runlets, saunter, shunter, sternum, stunner, subrent, tenours, tenures, tonsure, triunes, tureens, turners, undrest, uniters, unrests.

+2 letters: anestrus, burstone, burthens, centaurs, centrums, chunters, construe, counters, currents, curtness, daunters, dentures, drunkest, durndest, encrusts, entrusts, esurient, fortunes, grunters, gruntles, haunters, huntress, insulter, intrudes, lutherns, menstrua, mounters, muenster, munsters, neuritis, neutrals, neutrons, nurtures, outearns, outsnore, punsters, recounts, recusant, remounts, restrung, retinues, reunites, roundest, routines, ruinates, rundlets, runniest, runtiest, saunters, sauterne, sederunt, shunters, snoutier, southern, squinter, sternums, strucken, strunted, stunners, sturgeon, subentry, subrents, subtrend, taunters, taurines, terminus, thunders, tonsured, tonsures, tourneys, transude, tribunes, trounces, trudgens, trueness, trundles, trunnels, turbines, turnkeys, turnsole, uncrates, underset, unearths, unmiters, unmitres, unrested, unripest, unrusted, unsorted, unstress, untreads, untruest, uptrends, uranites, urbanest, urethans, urinates, vaunters, ventures, venturis.

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