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uneasy

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Uneasy \Un*eas"y\, a.
   1. Not easy; difficult. [R.]

            Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily
            understood.                           --Boyle.

            The road will be uneasy to find.      --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   2. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like;
      disquieted; perturbed.

            The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and
            expatiates in a life to come.         --Pope.

   3. Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not
      graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.

   4. Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping;
      disagreeable; unpleasing. ``His uneasy station.''
      --Milton.

            A sour, untractable nature makes him uneasy to those
            who approach him.                     --Addison.

Source : WordNet®

uneasy
     adj 1: lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or
            reassurance; "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" [ant: {easy}]
     2: causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an
        anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious
        glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before
        takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" [syn: {anxious}, {nervous}, {unquiet}]
     3: marked by a lack of quiet; not conducive to rest; "spent a
        restless night"; "fell into an uneasy sleep" [syn: {restless}]
     4: not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner;
        "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among
        eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with
        strangers" [syn: {awkward}, {ill at ease(p)}]
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