uneasy

[un·eas·y]

Uneasy describes an uncomfortable feeling. You might feel socially uneasy when dining with your girlfriend's parents if they don't like you very much. Your stomach may also feel uneasy at that same dinner and gurgle in an embarrassing way.

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Not easy; difficult.

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective
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 ca

Adjective S.
marked by a lack of quiet; not conducive to rest; "spent a restless night"; "fell into an uneasy sleep"

Adjective S.
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"


a.
Not easy; difficult.

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

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

a.
Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.


Uneasy

Un*eas"y , a. 1. Not easy; difficult. [R.]
Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood.
The road will be uneasy to find.
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.
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.

Not easy; difficult.

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Usage Examples

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

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Other Usage Examples

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.

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