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Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety. Swift.

Producing inquietude or uneasiness. [R.] Barrow.

State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. [R.] Hopkins.

Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness. Hooker.

Causing uneasiness. [R.] So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.

Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.

The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations. The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction. Addison.

To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft.

Discomfort; uneasiness. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness. Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his distemperature. Sir W. Scott.

Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness. Any man . . . in a state of disturbance and irritation. Burke.

Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Cæsar. Envy is a repining at the prosperity or good of anot…

Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy. It is a great error to take facility for good nature. L'Estrange.

Uneasiness; restlessness. Cowper.

A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.

rked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc. Easiness and handsome address in writing. Felton.

To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town. Addison. He was hankering to join his friend. J. A. Symonds.

An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc. Shak.

To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.