Hypertext Webster Gateway: "uneasy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Uneasy \Un*eas"y\, a.
1. Not easy; difficult. [R.]
Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily
understood. --Boyle.
The road will be uneasy to find. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like;
disquieted; perturbed.
The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and
expatiates in a life to come. --Pope.
3. Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not
graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.
4. Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping;
disagreeable; unpleasing. ``His uneasy station.''
--Milton.
A sour, untractable nature makes him uneasy to those
who approach him. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
uneasy
adj 1: lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or
reassurance; "farmers were uneasy until rain finally
came"; "uneasy about his health"; "gave an uneasy
laugh"; "uneasy lies the head that wears the crown";
"an uneasy coalition government"; "an uneasy calm";
"an uneasy silence fell on the group" [ant: {easy}]
2: causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an
anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious
glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before
takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" [syn: {anxious}, {nervous}, {unquiet}]
3: marked by a lack of quiet; not conducive to rest; "spent a
restless night"; "fell into an uneasy sleep" [syn: {restless}]
4: not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner;
"awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among
eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with
strangers" [syn: {awkward}, {ill at ease(p)}]
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