disquiet

[ dis-kwahy-it ]

noun

1. lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.

verb (used with object)

1. to deprive of calmness, equanimity, or peace; disturb; make uneasy:

   The news disquieted him.

adjective

1. Archaic. uneasy; disquieted.

disquiet

/ dɪsˈkwaɪət /

noun

1. a feeling or condition of anxiety or uneasiness

verb

1. tr to make anxious or upset

adjective

1. archaic.
   uneasy or anxious

Derived Forms

• disˈquieting, adjective
• disˈquietingly, adverb
• disˈquietedly, adverb
• disˈquietedness, noun

Other Words From

• dis·quiet·ed·ly adverb
• dis·quiet·ed·ness noun
• dis·quiet·ly adverb
• undis·quiet·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of disquiet¹

First recorded in 1520–30; dis- ¹ + quiet in the sense “freedom from disturbance or tumult”

Example Sentences

Yet these quick decisions are based more on disquiet than data.

From Science News

Liang, still suffering the effects of a traumatic childhood back in China, thrashes violently in his sleep and trudges through his days in a fog of disquiet.

From Washington Post

Do both symptoms perhaps point to the same internal disquiet?

From The Daily Beast

The show articulated a precise brand of feminine disquiet that my grad school friends and I could relate with.

From The Daily Beast

As they got lower and lower down the hill, her wretchedness and disquiet became acute, to the point of a wild despair.

From Project Gutenberg

The disquiet indicated resembles rather that attending the uncertainties of the Nile campaign.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet, conscious that he had said nothing that was wrong, he felt no disquiet.

From Project Gutenberg

Do you ever sigh and disquiet your heart, Christian pilgrim, because God has not given you wealth and worldly ease?

From Project Gutenberg

Her gentleness touched him but caused him disquiet, too, because he could not help realizing that a great part of it was apathy.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• angst
• anxiety
• ferment
• foreboding
• nervousness
• restlessness
• uneasiness