restless children who can't sit still The audience was becoming restless. He started to feel restless and discontent in his job.
Recent Examples on the WebThe young Blazy was imaginative, restless, and undisciplined. Nathan Heller, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2022 Some elders with dementia become angry, restless, combative and even violent. Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022 As a result her son, Kylian (Cody Schroeder), who’s about 5, is restless and agitated and her nerves are shot. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022 His father is permanently restless and unfulfilled, his mother increasingly addicted to alcohol and physically disabled. Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022 Cameron Johnson was restless and grateful watching two historic moments for both the NCAA's and his family's histories at the Final Four in New Orleans. Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2022 John Welchman, distinguished professor of art history at the University of California San Diego, described Picasso as restless, passionate and macho. Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2022 His manner is restless and impatient, full of stop-start rhythms, and of characters who coil themselves up in rumination and then, without warning, lash out or lunge across the frame. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022 Built around acoustic guitar, piano, and touches of other classic country instrumentation, the tune imagines love to be as simultaneously exciting, restless, and frustrating as a relationship with a stoic range-riding type. Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2022 See More
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of restless was before the 12th century