uneasy

Speech parts

1. uneasy - Adjective

2. uneasy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not easy; difficult.

Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.

Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.

Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

restless nervous awkward anxious unquiet queasy ill at ease sleepless disconcerted concerned tense upset afraid strained worried

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Antonyms

easy valiant daredevil together placid intrepid

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Phrases with the word

feel uneasy feel uneasy about feeling uneasy about be uneasy about be uneasy

Examples

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. Jonathan Swift

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. William Shakespeare

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. Josh Billings

Fools are never uneasy. American Proverb

Rocking chairs make long-tailed cats uneasy. Mexican Proverb

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

uneaseful uneasily uneasiness uneasyness uneat uneatable