UNQUIET Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

unquiet

adjective

ˌən-ˈkwī-ət

as in worried

feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty plagued with an unquiet mind the whole time her son was stationed overseas

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as in restless

lacking or denying rest an unquiet curiosity that impelled him to study the world about him relentlessly

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Recent Examples of unquiet These attempts to keep down the unquiet dead were, besides being desecrations, exercises in a lot of heavy and often forbidden labor done on decaying bodies. —

Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026 The finale had the impossible task of putting the monstrous show to an unquiet grave, and while some storylines seemed rushed and others completely ignored, even everyone’s least favorite season of GOT is heart palpitating. —

Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025 The decision is an outright and unbridled expression of my unquiet mind. —

Outside Online, 10 July 2024 The calamity at Waco, the shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada, unquiet literary unions, a new thriller from Sweden and more. —

Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023 Instead of providing an answer, Gleeson takes us into the unquiet mind of a man whose profound unhappiness is its own kind of life force. —

The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022 Something is certainly making Sutter’s unquiet spirit walk. —

Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2022 Around him unfolds the dull and hopeless work of a cubicle maze that forces otherwise potentially lovable people to live lives of unquiet desperation. —

Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022 Charles Stewart Parnell, who championed the cause of Irish Home Rule, is the unquiet ghost who haunts the book. —

Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022

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So how worried should these teams be?

— Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
People that maybe have a more precarious position in the industry and are worried and see AI as a threat — which is absolutely valid — and younger people, younger actors and musicians.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026