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.

 

© Webster 1913.

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