disquiet
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disquiet \Dis*qui"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disquieted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Disquieting}.]
To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility;
to make uneasy or restless; to disturb.
[1913 Webster]
Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou
disquieted within me? --Ps. xlii.
11.
[1913 Webster]
As quiet as these disquieted times will permit. --Sir
W. Scott.
Syn: To harass; disturb; vex; fret; excite; agitate.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
231 Moby Thesaurus words for "disquiet":
afflict, affright, agitate, agitation, ailment, alarm, all-overs,
angst, anguish, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis,
anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness,
apprehension, apprehensiveness, be tedious, beat, beat up, bluster,
bobbery, boil, boiling, bore, boredom, bother, brouhaha, burden,
bustle, cankerworm of care, care, cheerlessness, chills of fear,
churn, churn up, cold creeps, cold shivers, cold sweat, commotion,
concern, concernment, conturbation, convulse, creeps,
curdle the blood, didder, disarrange, discombobulate, discomfort,
discompose, discomposure, disconcert, discontent, dislike,
disorder, displeasure, disquietude, dissatisfaction, distress,
disturb, disturbance, dithers, dread, dullness, ebullition,
electrify, embroilment, emptiness, ennui, excite, excitement,
existential woe, fear, fear and trembling, ferment, fermentation,
fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap, flatness, flurry,
fluster, flutter, flutteration, foment, foreboding, forebodingness,
frazzle, fret, fright, frighten, fume, funk, fuss, give concern,
goose bumps, gooseflesh, grimness, heartquake, heaving,
horripilate, horripilation, hubbub, hurly-burly, inquietude, jar,
jimjams, jitters, jolt, joylessness, jumpiness, lack of pleasure,
leave unsatisfied, load with care, maelstrom, make one tremble,
malaise, misgiving, moil, nausea, nerviness, nervosity,
nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nongratification,
nonsatisfaction, overanxiety, paddle, painfulness, palpitation,
panting, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, pins and needles,
pitapat, pitter-patter, pucker, put to it, quaking, quaver,
quavering, quiver, quiver of terror, quivering,
raise apprehensions, rattle, restiveness, restlessness, rile,
ripple, rock, roil, roughen, rout, row, ruffle, rumple,
savorlessness, scare, seethe, seething, shake, shake up, shakes,
shaking, shiver, shivers, shock, shudder, solicitude, spleen,
spook, stagger, staleness, startle, stew, stir, stir up, strain,
suspense, sweat, swirl, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium,
tension, thrill of fear, throb, throbbing, to-do, tremble,
trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult,
tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter,
uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unhinge, unman,
unnerve, unpleasure, unquietness, unrest, unsatisfaction, unsettle,
unstring, untune, upset, vexation, vexation of spirit, whip,
whip up, whisk, work up, worry, zeal
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