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1. • • the quality of being unwilling to be controlled or be patient:
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     RESTIVENESS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   The meaning of RESTIVE is stubbornly resisting control : balky. How to use restive in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Restive.

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   What does restive mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! RESTIVE meaning: 1. unwilling to be controlled or be patient: 2. unwilling to be controlled or be patient: 3…. Learn more.

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   What is the synonym of restive?

   • 1 restless (a.) Synonyms: unquiet, uneasy, disquieted, disturbed, agitated, anxious, restive 2 restless (a.) Synonyms: unsteady, inconstant, changeable, unstable, unsettled, vacillating, fickle 3 restless (a.) Synonyms: roving, wandering, in motion, on the move

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   What is a restive feeling?

   • Characterized by impatience or an absence of calm; unsettled: had a restive feeling that something wasn't quite right. 2. Refusing to move. Used of a horse or other animal. [Middle English restif, stationary, from Old French, from rester, to remain, from Latin restāre, to keep back : re-, re- + stāre, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots .]

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   Is restive a good word?

   • Although the oldest sense of restive (“balky”) has not died out completely, it is overshadowed by the more recent one (“fidgety”). There are still usage guides which recommend against using restive in this modern sense, but there is well over a century and a half of evidence of such use, by writers of all levels.

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   unwilling to be controlled or be patient: The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin. Synonym. restless. Opposite. calm. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Anxious and worried. (all) hot and bothered idiom.

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   unwilling to be controlled or be patient: The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin. Synonym. restless. Opposite. calm. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Anxious and worried. (all) hot and bothered idiom.

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   To be restive is to be impatient or on edge — it's an edgy state. When you feel like your skin is too tight and your nerves are ready to snap, when you feel ready to explode, you are restive.

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   1. a. Uneasily impatient or hard to control under restriction, opposition, criticism, or delay: Passengers on board the delayed airliner began to grow restive. b. Characterized by impatience or an absence of calm; unsettled: had a restive feeling that something wasn't quite right. 2. Refusing to move. Used of a horse or other animal.

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   Restive definition: impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.. See examples of RESTIVE used in a sentence.