restless

From Middle English restles, restelees, from Old English ræstlēas, equivalent to rest +‎ -less.

• enPR: rĕstʹlĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛstlɪs/

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• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛstləs/
• Hyphenation: rest‧less

restless (comparative more restless, superlative most restless)

1. Not allowing or affording rest.

   The night before his wedding was a restless one.

2. Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.

   Synonym: antsy

   He was a restless child.

   She sat, restless and nervous, and tried to concentrate.

   • 2024 March 11, Madeline Holcombe, “What to do on the nights you are struggling with insomnia, according to experts”, in CNN‎:

     If that is the case, she recommends getting up, walking around the house and doing some stretches to ease the restless feeling before trying again to get to sleep.

3. Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.

   A restless ambition.

4. Deprived of rest or sleep.

   They remained restless, sitting by the window the entire night.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “restless”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “restless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• restless on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Tesslers, tressels