Disquiet

/dɪsˈkwaɪ.ɪt/ · noun

Meaning

Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind.

Definitions by Sense

1. Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind
2. (chiefly obsolete) Deprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To make (someone or something) worried or anxious.

Example Sentences

My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief.

Every house has its skeleton in it somewhere, and it may be a comfort to some unhappy folks to think that the luckier and most wealthy of their neighbours have their miseries and causes of disquiet.

I wish to say in regard to the alleged matter of disquiet in this Church, that when I received the postal card that was sent, I suppose, to all the clergy of the Church, I could not but feel in my heart that the three distinguished gentlemen who signed that postal card, or whose names were attached to it, and put it forth, were disquieting the Church much more than the Prayer-Book.

How rare is it for men to get their lot in the world brought up to their deſire? but are ſtill at ſome jar with their preſent condition, ſo that oft there needs no more to turn men discontent but the thought of ſome lot, which they apprehend more ſatiſfying than their own, the want whereof turns them more diſquiet than all their enjoyments are pleaſing; […]

From this place it was that i uſed to go often to view my boat; and now i ſhall relate a thing that gave me the moſt diſquiet of any thing i had ever met with, ſince my firſt coming into the iſland. […] [O]ne day, as i was going to my boat, as uſual, i perceived on the ſand, the print of a man's naked foot, and had i ſeen an apparition, i could not have been more terrified.

I pray you huſband be not ſo diſquiet. / The meate was well, if you were ſo contented.

My vina breaks out in a strange disquiet measure, / My heart to-day is tremulous with the heart-throbs of the world.

He felt disquieted by the lack of interest the child had shown.

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• disquiets
• more disquiet
• most disquiet
• disquieting
• disquieted

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