uneasy

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance
  2. adjective lacking or not affording physical or mental rest
  3. adjective causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

Etymology

From Middle English unesy, equivalent to un- + easy. Merged with Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”). See uneath.

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