Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not restful or at rest; restless. Not affording rest or promotive of rest.

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Examples

  • They are like phantoms, unrestful, resentful of her absence.

    To Each A Song « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • His squirrelly jointed right thumb evoked the weight of the grinding whopper stones at the mills, and the unrestful, dead man's sleep he suffered through every night was a morning keystone to the penny stills in the woods.

    SAMESON JAMESON Wally Rudolph 2011

  • His squirrelly jointed right thumb evoked the weight of the grinding whopper stones at the mills, and the unrestful, dead man's sleep he suffered through every night was a morning keystone to the penny stills in the woods.

    SAMESON JAMESON Wally Rudolph 2011

  • Tolteca thought of his own brawling unrestful folk, the forests they had already raped, and made no answer.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • I am a very emotional person, very hyper and very unrestful.

    Carbohydrates are addictive | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

  • An uneasy silence haunts tombstone cities, whose unrestful citizens flit through the skies like shades on errands in the afterworld.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Young Geoffrion 2007

  • An uneasy silence haunts tombstone cities, whose unrestful citizens flit through the skies like shades on errands in the afterworld.

    Alone Young Geoffrion 2007

  • Wherefore the she-wolf went red and white by turns, and fumed, and fretted her bedizenments with unrestful hands, and when she should let us go our ways, she lingered and looked back oft, and was loth to depart ere she had gotten what she lacked, and that, forsooth, was the said flasket.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • So they kissed and departed; and Birdalone went home to the house, and wore the days thereafter doing what was needful about the stead, and wandering through the meadows, and swimming the waters about Green Eyot; and the days were not unrestful unto her.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Second, I hope we are all giving our vacationing representatives of Congress a very unrestful holiday.

    Think Progress » Bush on Iraq: ‘We’re Not Leaving So Long As I’m The President’ 2006

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