Adjective: restless
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more restless |
| Superlative | most restless |
Sample Sentences
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The night before his wedding was a restless one.
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He was a restless child.
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She sat, restless and nervous, and tried to concentrate.
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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. [2024 March 11, Madeline Holcombe, “What to do on the nights you are struggling with insomnia, according to experts”, in CNN:]
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A restless ambition.
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They remained restless, sitting by the window the entire night.
Adjectives inflected like restless
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *rastō
3. Proto-West Germanic *rastu
4. Old English ræst
5. Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
6. Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
7. Proto-Germanic *leusaną
8. Proto-Germanic *lausaz
9. Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
10. Proto-West Germanic *-laus
11. Old English -lēas
12. Old English ræstlēas
13. Middle English restles
14. English restless
15. From Middle English restles, restelees, from Old English ræstlēas, equivalent to rest + -less.
Verbs referencing "restless"
German Adjectives
rastlos, Swedish Adjectives
rastlös.