Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Word of the Day

unquiet
\uhn-KWAHY-it\

adjective
1. agitated; restless; disordered; turbulent: unquiet times.
2. mentally or emotionally disturbed; vexed or perturbed; uneasy: He felt unquiet and alone.

Quotes
The Scotch became unquiet in the Red King's time, and were twice defeated—the second time, with the loss of their King, Malcolm, and his son.
-- Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England, 1852

Origin
Unquiet has been in English since at least the early 1500s. The prefix un- means “not” and the root word quiet derives from the Latin verb quiÄ“scere “to come to rest.”

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