Antonyms for unrest

Grammar : Noun

Spell : uhn-rest

Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈrɛst

Definition of unrest

Origin : mid-14c., from un- (2) + rest (n.). Cf. West Frisian onrest, Middle Low German unreste, German unrast, Middle Dutch onruste.

noun state of agitation; disturbance

Example sentences :

The sound disturbed him, bringing premonitions of the city's unrest.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Italy in 1899 was passing through a period of humiliation and unrest.
Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

This was a realm of unrest and tempest, which the devils claimed as belonging to themselves.
Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor

It was not the rights or wrongs, or the significance of it, that inspired his unrest.
Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum

Hassim had learned also that the Settlement was in a state of unrest as if on the eve of war.
Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad

They reflected 22 in their unrest the dissatisfied expression of her face.
Extract from : « Nan of Music Mountain » by Frank H. Spearman

I had a peculiar sense of unrest and of some evil coming to us during the night.
Extract from : « In the Forbidden Land » by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

It is this absence of faith that is at the bottom of all their arguments and all their unrest.
Extract from : « The Ontario High School Reader » by A.E. Marty

And as time went on, the unrest deepened which possessed him.
Extract from : « Nicanor - Teller of Tales » by C. Bryson Taylor

And with it, swift as the wind, comes a dreary sense of unrest.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 » by Various

Synonyms for unrest

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