unrest Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
    ferment; tempestuousness; fermentation; agitation.
    • the political ferment produced new leadership
    • social unrest
  2. noun a feeling of restless agitation

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Un*rest" noun
Definitions
  1. Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude.
    Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest! Chaucer.
    Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast? Tennyson.

Webster 1913