uneasy

Adjective
  1. Lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance (synset 300826017)
    "farmers were uneasy until rain finally came"; "uneasy about his health"; "gave an uneasy laugh"; "uneasy lies the head that wears the crown"; "an uneasy coalition government"; "an uneasy calm"; "an uneasy silence fell on the group"
    also:
    • uncomfortable - conducive to or feeling mental discomfort
    • unquiet - characterized by unrest or disorder
    • tense - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
    similar to:
  2. Lacking or not affording physical or mental rest (synset 301928961)
    "a restless night"; "she fell into an uneasy sleep"
    same as: restless
  3. Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety (synset 302465209)
    "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"
    similar to: troubled - characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
    same as: anxious, nervous, queasy, unquiet
  4. Socially uncomfortable;
    Unsure and constrained in manner (synset 300482429)
    "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"
    similar to: uncomfortable - conducive to or feeling mental discomfort
    same as: awkward, ill at ease
  5. Relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort (synset 300481063)
    similar to: uncomfortable - providing or experiencing physical discomfort

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