res·tive

(rĕs′tĭv)

adj.

a. Uneasily impatient or hard to control under restriction, opposition, criticism, or delay: Passengers on board the delayed airliner began to grow restive.

b. Characterized by impatience or an absence of calm; unsettled: had a restive feeling that something wasn't quite right.

2. Refusing to move. Used of a horse or other animal.

[Middle English restif, stationary, from Old French, from rester, to remain, from Latin restāre, to keep back : re-, re- + stāre, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]

res′tive·ly adv.

res′tive·ness n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	restiveness - the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters jitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness anxiety - a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
	2.	restiveness - characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright skittishness nervousness - a sensitive or highly strung temperament

restiveness

noun

An uneasy or nervous state:

disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, restlessness, unease, uneasiness, unrest.

Translations

تَمَلْمُل، عَدَم إرْتِياح

nervozita

rastløshedutilfredshed

Unruhe

nervosité

csökönyösség

eirîarleysi

restiveness

[ˈrestɪvnɪs] N [of person] → inquietud f, malestar m; [of horse] → nerviosismo m, inquietud f

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restiveness

(of horse, = stubbornness) → störrische Art; (= nervousness) → Unruhe f

(= restlessness: of person, manner) → Rastlosigkeit f; (of tribes) → Widerspenstigkeit f, → Aufsässigkeit f

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restive

(ˈrestiv) adjective

beginning to show displeasure, impatience, boredom etc eg at delay, discipline etc; restless.

ˈrestively adverb

ˈrestiveness noun

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References in classic literature

The Spanish name, desemboltura, partly expresseth them; when there be not stonds nor restiveness in a man's nature; but that the wheels of his mind, keep way with the wheels of his fortune.

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