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uneasy

[uhn-ee-zee]

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adjective, -eas·i·er, -eas·i·est.

not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.

not easy in manner; constrained; awkward.

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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Example Sentences

Even as its executives celebrated, recalls one, they were uneasy.

The best kind of technocrat is uneasy about being in power at all.

The inflection told me the chimpanzees were surprised or uneasy.

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Even as its executives celebrated, recalls one, they were uneasy.

The best kind of technocrat is uneasy about being in power at all.

The inflection told me the chimpanzees were surprised or uneasy.

Surely you must appreciate when people become conscious of how they are being perceived, they also feel naked and uneasy.

Icelanders live in an uneasy peace with the geologic unrest beneath their feet.

But my feelings afterward were akin to the uneasy feelings that follow a burger and fries.

The arm was actually kept in an adjacent room, as its presence tended to make the monkeys uneasy.

Iguanodon sensu lato remained sprawling and home to many uneasy bedfellows.

Law enforcement authorities have long had an uneasy and ambivalent relationship with anonymizer services.

So academe exists in an uneasy relation with the public and the idea of public service.

The regime that succeeded him was an uneasy tussle between idealists and a would-be military junta.

He also discovered that it made security guards uneasy.

But the novelty of the request definitely makes me uneasy.

Rather, it is an uneasy compromise reached after painful negotiation by people who would otherwise be at each other's throats.

The town is an uneasy mix of ultrarich and ultrapoor and has been scarred by two waves of imperialism.

When they first come upon one another, they are uneasy.

Japan has long been uneasy about non-profit organisations.

It is little wonder that traditionally-minded gatekeepers are feeling uneasy.

What makes me uneasy is that cheap labor seems more important to academe than quality instruction.

Perhaps not this time, but it sets an uneasy precedent.

Canada seems to have an uneasy relationship with digital media.

Tell him he should never feel bad about walking away from someone and finding a trusted adult if someone makes him feel uneasy.

He was uneasy that it aligned a ban on nuclear propulsion with one on weapons.

The main parties have themselves always been uneasy alliances.

He would never hurt them, but it makes us all uneasy that he is so intent on protecting me that he could hurt someone.

And much of the public is still uneasy about buying foods that carry an international symbol for irradiation.

Milling in uneasy circles, scanning the horizon, sniffing the air for distant.

It's that uneasy feeling you get when viewing a realistic humanoid or.

Pigs are already bred and killed for food, but some vegetarians and vegans might feel uneasy about making such use of an animal.

Nonetheless, live music and the internet are forging an uneasy friendship.

Some other parents uneasy about the increase in vaccine dosing in childhood say one injection is good enough.

Simply because students and families are getting uneasy about the costs and debt loads of going to college.

And lenders are now unable to raise cash in uneasy debt markets.

Notarbartolo was already uneasy about what had happened in the forest.

Yet the leadership of the centre-right is uneasy about these implied threats to break the law.

Developing countries are uneasy about formalising such a realignment.

It was funny in a taboo way, but left you a little uneasy.

Some of us may feel a little uneasy about a perfectly planned environment.

Despite the growth in volume, the exchange's members are uneasy.

It's a post-apocalyptic future, and humans have made an uneasy truce with vampires, who live on reservations.

And now, this glimpse behind the scenes makes me feel uneasy.

There is an uneasy balance, a fretful stability in botdom.

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World English Dictionary

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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Word Origin & History

uneasy

late 13c., "not comforting," from un- (1) "not" + easy. Meaning "disturbed in mind" is attested from 1670s.

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