Thesaurus: uneasy

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1. a. Not easy; difficult.
2. a. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.
3. a. Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.
4. a. Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.
5. adj. lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance
6. adj. lacking or not affording physical or mental rest
7. adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
8. adj. socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
9. adj. relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort
10. 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.
11. j:100 a. lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance s. relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort