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unease
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Unease
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un·eas·y
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ʌnˈi
zi
/
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[
uhn-
ee
-zee
]
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adjective,
un·eas·i·er,
un·eas·i·est.
1.
not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.
2.
not easy in manner; constrained;
awkward
.
3.
not conducive to ease; causing bodily discomfort.
Origin:
1250–1300;
Middle English
unesy.
See
un-
1
,
easy
Related forms
un·ease,
noun
un·eas·i·ly,
adverb
un·eas·i·ness,
noun
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uneasy
(ʌnˈiːzɪ)
—
adj
1.
(of a person) anxious; apprehensive
2.
(of a condition) precarious; uncomfortable:
an uneasy truce
3.
(of a thought, etc) disturbing; disquieting
un'ease
—
n
un'easily
—
adv
un'easiness
—
n
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uneasy
(ʌnˈiːzɪ)
—
adj
1.
(of a person) anxious; apprehensive
2.
(of a condition) precarious; uncomfortable:
an uneasy truce
3.
(of a thought, etc) disturbing; disquieting
un'ease
—
n
un'easily
—
adv
un'easiness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
uneasy
late 13c., "not comforting," from
un-
(1) "not" +
easy
. Meaning "disturbed in mind" is attested from 1670s.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Measures of this nature create apprehension and
unease
.
Yet the bigger, more complicated changes are generating
unease
.
He showed up early to the games and stayed late, he played with abandon, he
felt the
unease
in results.
One place where the level of public
unease
can be measured is on
social-networking sites.
Given the gloomy history, the lingering
unease
about higher oil prices is understandable.
The
unease
with the exposure to so many strangers with strange ideas also changed our notions of privacy.
But she did not give a date, and news reports have shown growing
unease
about the legislation.
If not outright panic, there was a deep sense of
unease
, however.
They've blogged, but with the ghastly
unease
of one's high school headmaster trying to rap.
Such stories, with stock characters speaking in exaggerated dialect, allowed their tellers to laugh away their own
unease
.
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