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

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