unquiet – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of unquiet

Adjective: unquiet

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeunquieter
Superlativeunquietest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • an unquiet mind
  • But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
  • ⁠A use in measured language lies;
  • ⁠The sad mechanic exercise,
  • Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
  • an unquiet night
  • Madam Zenocrate, may I preſume
  • To know the cauſe of theſe vnquiet fits:
  • That worke such trouble to your woonted reſt: [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:]
  • Wearied out, Francesca at once fell asleep—a slumber which would have been broken by anxiety, could she have known the feverish restlessness which kept Guido wakeful on his unquiet pillow, listening—and dreary it was to listen through the night—to the distant dash of the waves, as they rose beneath the loud and sweeping wind. [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 202:]
  • Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness. [1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN:]

Adjectives inflected like unquiet

sallow, smooth, slight, sleigh, sordid, somber, shweet, shrill, shrewd, yellow, yaller, hard knock, DRY, Greek, cut short, unquiet, unclean, indiscreet, chipper, straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. English un-
3. Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
5. Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁tis
6. Proto-Italic *kʷjētis
7. Latin quiēs
8. Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
9. Proto-Italic *-skō
10. Latin -scō
11. Latin quiēscō
12. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
13. Proto-Italic *-tos
14. Latin -tus
15. Latin quiētusder.
16. French quietder.
17. Middle English quiete
18. English quiet
19. English unquiet
20. From un- + quiet.