untranquil

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ tranquil.

Adjective

untranquil (comparative more untranquil, superlative most untranquil)

  1. Not tranquil.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, pages 287–288:
      I have learnt the secret of others from my own heart, and that taught me that my cousin had for me only the affection of a brother. How unlike my own feverish, untranquil, and fearful fondness for him! yet how kind he always was! how tender in his even feminine care of me!