'Unrest' definitions:
Definition of 'unrest'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest" [syn: agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest]
noun
A feeling of restless agitation
Definition of 'Unrest'
From: GCIDE
- Unrest \Un*rest"\, n. Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude. [1913 Webster]
- Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest! --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast? --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unrest'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- activity,
- actuation,
- agitation,
- agony,
- ailment,
- anguish,
- anxiety,
- anxiousness,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- brouhaha,
- bustle,
- churn,
- commotion,
- concern,
- conturbation,
- didder,
- discomposure,
- disorder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- dithers,
- dynamics,
- ebullition,
- embroilment,
- excitement,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- flap,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- flutteration,
- foment,
- fume,
- fuss,
- going,
- heaving,
- hubbub,
- hurly-burly,
- inquietude,
- jitters,
- jumpiness,
- kinematics,
- kinesipathy,
- kinesis,
- kinesitherapy,
- kinetics,
- maelstrom,
- malaise,
- mobilization,
- moil,
- motion,
- motivation,
- move,
- movement,
- moving,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- palpitation,
- panting,
- perturbation,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- quaking,
- quaver,
- quavering,
- quiver,
- quivering,
- restiveness,
- restlessness,
- roil,
- rout,
- row,
- running,
- seethe,
- seething,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shiver,
- shivers,
- shudder,
- stir,
- stirring,
- strife,
- swirl,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- to-do,
- tremble,
- trembling,
- tremor,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- trouble,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- upset,
- velocity,
- worry