Thesaurus / restless
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I planned to use that sweet-savory treat as an enticement to keep them moving as soon as they started to act restless.
She was “restless, impatient, ambitious” but had no clear path forward.
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It evolved into a local search purveyor but after adoption plateaued and investors grew restless, the company pivoted to location intelligence.
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True to his restless, improvement-seeking nature, he has lately become excited about a collaboration with Friedman and Paul Blainey of the Broad Institute that repurposes a nanofluidics chip Blainey built for high-throughput drug screening.
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His daughter's tranquillity seems to have come from her mother; certainly it cannot be inherited from the restless Reginald Adair.
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And now she was restless as she had not been before, for, energetic as she had always been, she had never driven others.
MARY GRAYKATHARINE TYNAN
When Restless, the carpenter, broke his leg the boy was always around.
THE ONE-WAY TRAILRIDGWELL CULLUM
For a long time—in exact figures just a month, which to restless fighting men is a near eternity—the sector was quiet.
WITH THE DOUGHBOY IN FRANCEEDWARD HUNGERFORD
He looked at the old man with a restless appeal in his big, deer-like eyes.
IN CONNECTION WITH THE DE WILLOUGHBY CLAIMFRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
"An' I kin hear that savage army now, movin' up an' down, restless like," said Long Jim.
THE KEEPERS OF THE TRAILJOSEPH A. ALTSHELER
WORDS RELATED TO RESTLESS
- agitated
- capricious
- changeful
- commutative
- convertible
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- fluctuating
- fluid
- impulsive
- inconstant
- indecisive
- irregular
- irresolute
- irresponsible
- kaleidoscopic
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- mutable
- permutable
- protean
- restless
- reversible
- revocable
- shifting
- skittish
- spasmodic
- transformable
- transitional
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- vacillating
- vagrant
- variable
- variant
- varying
- versatile
- volatile
- wavering
- whimsical
- acquisitive
- agog
- ambitious
- antsy
- appetent
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- champing at the bit
- covetous
- craving
- desiring
- desirous
- dying to
- earnest
- fervent
- fervid
- greedy
- gung ho
- hankering
- heated
- hot
- hot to trot
- hungry
- impatient
- intent
- keen
- longing
- pining
- ready and willing
- restive
- restless
- self-starting
- solicitous
- thirsty
- vehement
- voracious
- warmblooded
- wild
- wishful
- yearning
- zealous
- agitable
- alarmable
- demonstrative
- edgy
- emotional
- enthusiastic
- fidgety
- fierce
- fiery
- galvanic
- hasty
- high-strung
- hot-headed
- hot-tempered
- hysterical
- impatient
- impetuous
- impulsive
- inflammable
- intolerant
- irascible
- mercurial
- moody
- nervous
- neurotic
- overzealous
- passionate
- peevish
- quick
- quick-tempered
- rash
- reckless
- restless
- sensitive
- short fused
- skittish
- susceptible
- temperamental
- testy
- touchy
- uncontrolled
- uneasy
- vehement
- violent
- volatile
- volcanic
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.