Unrest

Quick meaning: Unrest is a noun meaning A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.

Meaning

A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.

More Meanings

1. Something that troubles or confuses; that which causes unrest.

Example Sentences

What words are these have fall’n from me? ⁠Can calm despair and wild unrest ⁠Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

In her pyjamas, Sadie turned back the bedclothes to a single sheet, and settled down under it with a sigh of content; the languors of a body untroubled by mental unrests were a reward for the day's exertions.

Few expect the unrest to stop anytime soon. The government may hope to outflank the protest movement by painting them as unwilling to accept compromise, but even some of Lam’s allies have publicly said that the withdrawal was too little, too late.

Word Forms

• unrests

Synonyms for unrest

Depending on context, synonyms include agitation, ferment, fermentation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include agitation, ferment, fermentation, commotion, tumult, uproar.

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