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restive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, uptight |
| Derivation | restiveness |
restive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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the government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive.
Examples of restive
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U.S. banks are growing restive under investigators'barrage of requests for data.
From the businessweek.com
Otherwise it will be another restive night for Arsenal's bear with a sore head.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Northern electorates are growing restive over the apparently endless bail-outs.
From the economist.com
The third attack on Thursday occurred in Mosul, yet another restive area of Iraq.
From the nytimes.com
Are Republicans in the Senate growing restive under the leadership of Bill Frist?
From the time.com
The trend of bathrooms as a restive oasis doesn't show any signs of disappearing.
From the sfgate.com
A second explosion struck near a church in Nigeria's restive central city of Jos.
From the dailyherald.com
A peasant woman directly behind the conductor grew restive during the overture.
From the time.com
In the four months since then, the mountain has been restive but not cataclysmic.
From the time.com
- Edgy: being in a tense state
- Impatient especially under restriction or delay; "the government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive"
- (restively) in a restive manner; "he sat down again, restively"
- (restiveness) jitteriness: the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters
- (restiveness) skittishness: characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright
- Impatient under delay, duress, or control; Resistant of control; stubborn; Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction
- (adj.) resistant, stubborn, impatient (The restive audience pelted the band with mud and yelled nasty comments.)
- (adj) - restless, uneasy; hard to manage; refusing to move, balky
