Resty
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Resty is an adjective meaning Restive, resistant to control.
Meaning
Restive, resistant to control.
More Meanings
- Disposed to rest; inactive, lazy.
Example Sentences
In vaine the Pagan bannes, and sweares, and rayles, / And backe with both his hands unto him hayles / The resty raynes […]
[A]ll [beef] is rejected and unfit for such as lead a resty life, anyways inclined to melancholy, or dry of complexion […]
[…] Come; our stomachs / Will make what’s homely savoury: weariness / Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard.
I could not come a moment sooner; I hardly expected to get here at all, for my horse has been so confounded resty I could not tell how to get him along.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sloth, muse, restiff, wanrestful, restless, restraintful.
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