Antonyms for restless
ˈrɛst lɪsrest·less

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1. restlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   antsy

2. restlessadjective

   Not allowing or affording rest.

   The night before his wedding was a restless one.

   Synonyms:
   antsy

3. restlessadjective

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

   Synonyms:
   antsy

4. restlessadjective

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

   A restless ambition.

   Synonyms:
   antsy

5. restlessadjective

   Deprived of rest or sleep.

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

   Synonyms:
   antsy

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1. restless

   Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Synonyms:
   active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, diligent, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, prompt, quick, ready, sprightly, spry, supple, vigorous, wide awake

   Preposition:
   Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.

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1. restless

   Antonyms:
   calm, quiet, reposing, still, motionless

   Synonyms:
   unquiet, uneasy, disturbed, sleepless, agitated, roving, incessant, tossing

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1. restless, ungratified, unsatisfiedadjective

   worried and uneasy

   Antonyms:
   slumberous, slumbrous, contented, relaxing, reposeful, unmoving, nonmoving, content, restful

   Synonyms:
   uneasy, ungratified, unsated, unsatiated, unsatisfied

2. restlessadjective

   ceaselessly in motion

   "the restless sea"; "the restless wind"

   Antonyms:
   restful, contented, slumberous, slumbrous, content, unmoving, reposeful, nonmoving, relaxing

   Synonyms:
   uneasy, ungratified, unsatisfied

3. restless, uneasyadjective

   lacking or not affording physical or mental rest

   "a restless night"; "she fell into an uneasy sleep"

   Antonyms:
   nonmoving, content, unmoving, relaxing, slumbrous, reposeful, contented, restful, slumberous

   Synonyms:
   unquiet, uneasy, nervous, ill at ease(p), unsatisfied, queasy, awkward, ungratified, anxious

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1. restlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   restive, fidgety, agitated, unquiet, uneasy, kicksy-wicksy

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1. calm

   Submitted by anonymous on November 24, 2020  

How to use restless in a sentence?

1. Audrey Wendt:

   There's a period of time when patients often get really restless. It's horrible to see, the body knows something is very wrong. It's trying to compensate, but it just can't.

2. Natalie Dautovich:

   We know that consuming alcohol within two to three hours of bedtime can actually have an adverse effect on sleep, a rebound effect that causes people to wake up and have restless sleep.

3. Alexis karpouzos:

   When are we gonna talk about the unspoken? Behind of the words a silent ocean of desires and a coiled knowledge lies in wait, listen a restless voice in our heart endlessly urging us onward to break the limits of fear and to embrace of our longing. Unspoken is whatever we have not desired with all our heart

4. Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909–14, p.1):

   ...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

5. John Greenleaf Whittier:

   Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

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