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Pronunciation:
[ ɹˈɛstɪv], [ ɹˈɛstɪv], [ ɹ_ˈɛ_s_t_ɪ_v]
Restive is an adjective that describes a person or animal who is restless, uneasy, and difficult to control. Synonyms for restive include agitated, fidgety, jumpy, nervous, edgy, tense, and unsettled. Other synonyms for this word include restless, fractious, skittish, and impatient. A person who is restive may be anxious, irritated, or bored. They may be easily distracted and have trouble concentrating on one task for a prolonged period of time. Restive animals may be difficult to handle and require extra attention and patience from their handlers. Overall, restive is a useful word to describe anyone or anything that is uneasy, agitated, and restless.
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Similar words for restive:
- all (adjective)
- contrary (adjective)
- eager (adjective)
- edgy (adjective)
- fidgety (adjective)
- fitful (adjective)
- fractious (adjective)
- impatient, nervous (adjective)
- impetuous (adjective)
- indocile (adjective)
- nervous (adjective)
- noncompliant (adjective)
- obstinate (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- radical (adjective)
- restless (adjective)
- skittish (adjective)
- tense (adjective)
- twitchy (adjective)
- uneasy (adjective)
- unquiet (adjective)
- unruly (adjective)
- unsettled (adjective)
- uptight (adjective)
- wayward (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Restive:
adj.
• all (adjective) • contrary (adjective)- in-subordinate,
- in tractable,
- most wrongheaded,
- most paradoxical,
- most dissentient,
- more wrongheaded,
- more anti,
- Non-conforming,
- in-tractable,
- in-consistent,
- anti pathetic,
- anti-pathetic,
- more dissentient,
- most recusant,
- in consistent,
- more paradoxical,
- most reverse,
- most anti,
- most contrariant,
- dis sentient,
- re-verse,
- in subordinate,
- more recusant,
- dis-sentient,
- re verse,
- most opposed,
- most clashing,
- non conforming,
- nonconformist,
- more contrariant,
- head strong,
- non conformist,
- anti-thetical,
- anti thetical,
- more reverse,
- more clashing.
- more pining,
- most self-starting,
- more eager,
- most hankering,
- hot trot,
- most pining,
- more fervent,
- more warmblooded,
- most appetent,
- thirsty,
- most yearning,
- ready and willing,
- most self starting,
- more self-starting,
- more appetent,
- most warmblooded,
- most craving,
- rarin to go,
- more hankering,
- more craving,
- vehement,
- rarin go,
- more selfstarting,
- self-starting,
- selfstarting,
- in tent,
- ready willing,
- de siring,
- more yearning,
- rarin' go,
- most fervid,
- most selfstarting,
- more self starting,
- self starting,
- de-siring.
- ex-cited,
- most overstrung,
- ex-citable,
- high strung,
- ill ease,
- over strung,
- more overstrung,
- ex cited,
- over-strung,
- ex citable,
- highstrung,
- excitable.
- more spastic,
- flickering,
- more shifting,
- bits pieces,
- un stabler,
- most on again off again,
- in-constant,
- un stablest,
- more herky jerky,
- most shifting,
- most spastic,
- more on again off again,
- herky jerky,
- shifting,
- most on-again-off-again,
- most fluctuating,
- herkyjerky,
- un stable,
- most herkyjerky,
- most herky-jerky,
- more herkyjerky,
- more herky-jerky,
- more on-again-off-again,
- in constant,
- un-stable,
- un-stabler,
- re-current,
- most herky jerky,
- un-stablest,
- more fluctuating,
- re current.
- going off deep end,
- un-planned,
- unreflecting,
- more subitaneous,
- headlong,
- un-reflecting,
- un reflecting,
- un premeditated,
- un-restrained,
- un-bridled,
- un-premeditated,
- un-expected,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- un planned,
- head-long,
- going deep end,
- un thinking,
- Subitaneous,
- un-thinking,
- most subitaneous,
- most unreflecting,
- un bridled,
- more unreflecting,
- spur of the moment,
- un expected,
- head long.
- more flustered,
- most flustered,
- dis-tressed,
- up-set,
- more nervous,
- most ruffled,
- more ruffled,
- dis tressed,
- un strung,
- unstrung,
- un-strung,
- taut.
- spastic,
- unquiet,
- noncompliant,
- recusant,
- restless,
- impetuous,
- bits and pieces,
- anti,
- on-again-off-again,
- anarchistic,
- anguished,
- Agitable,
- eager,
- overanxious,
- radical,
- tense,
- leftist,
- all nerves,
- rarin' to go,
- Contrariant,
- over-anxious,
- wrecker,
- Crossgrained,
- stressful,
- all wound up,
- contrary,
- fitful,
- uptight,
- volative,
- indocile,
- Alarmable,
- twitchy,
- changeful,
- wrongheaded,
- cross-grained,
- in a tizzy,
- shot to pieces,
- up set,
- freethinking,
- in turmoil,
- bundle of nerves,
- dying to,
- skittish,
- Thirsting,
- fluttery,
- palpitant,
- over-wrought,
- non-conformist,
- hot to trot,
- nervous,
- Ultraist,
- on the qui vive,
- edgy,
- unsettled,
- out of line,
- herky-jerky,
- warmblooded,
- keyed up,
- tossing and turning,
- dissentient,
- unpeaceful,
- paradoxical,
- strung out,
- white knuckled,
- a bundle of nerves,
- head-strong.
- more leftist,
- more extremist,
- most anarchistic,
- more freethinking,
- un compromising,
- most leftist,
- more anarchistic,
- un-compromising,
- most freethinking,
- most insurrectionary,
- more ultraist,
- most ultraist,
- farout,
- more insurrectionary,
- most extremist.
- most fidgeting,
- more fidgeting,
- tossing turning,
- more unpeaceful,
- un-steadier,
- un steady,
- more bustling,
- un-steadiest,
- un steadier,
- un steadiest,
- most unpeaceful,
- un-peaceful,
- bundle nerves,
- most bustling,
- un peaceful.
- more agitable,
- un reliable,
- more alarmable,
- most volative,
- more volative,
- most agitable,
- un dependable,
- un-reliable,
- most alarmable,
- un-dependable.
- most choked,
- more clutched,
- more fluttery,
- wreckest,
- most overanxious,
- more overanxious,
- most stressful,
- over anxious,
- most clutched,
- un nerved,
- more stressful,
- nerveracking,
- most unnerved,
- more choked,
- shot pieces,
- in tizzy,
- more shot,
- un-nerved,
- nerve racking,
- most fluttery,
- most shot,
- more unnerved.
- more discomposed,
- in-secure,
- un-easier,
- un-easiest,
- in-securer,
- most palpitant,
- un easy,
- un-easy,
- more vexed,
- pre-carious,
- in securer,
- in securest,
- pre carious,
- dis-composed,
- un easier,
- more harassed,
- most tormented,
- dis mayed,
- more anguished,
- most anguished,
- more dismayed,
- most disquieted,
- more tormented,
- dis composed,
- most dismayed,
- in secure,
- dis-mayed,
- most vexed,
- more disquieted,
- most discomposed,
- dis-quieted,
- dis quieted,
- on qui vive,
- more palpitant,
- un easiest,
- most harassed,
- in-securest.
- in corrigible,
- un controllable,
- in temperate,
- out control,
- in-corrigible,
- in-exorable,
- out line,
- un-governable,
- in-temperate,
- un-controllable.
n.
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- bored,
- world-weary,
- fed up,
- uninspired,
- listless,
- blase.
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•
- tighten.
- hot,
- strained,
- bundle,
- fanatic,
- worry,
- beyond control,
- Malcontented,
- out of humor,
- whiny,
- fuss,
- querulous,
- edge,
- fidgety,
- uncooperative,
- Unpatient,
- muttering,
- frantically,
- on edge,
- sulky,
- excited,
- flustered,
- displeased,
- loath,
- fretful,
- fussy,
- tenacious,
- overzealous,
- unruly,
- perturbed,
- Renitent,
- fear,
- Insuppressible,
- tension,
- willful,
- grouchy,
- bitching,
- obstreperous,
- brooding,
- oppressed,
- grudging,
- tear 1,
- kitten,
- shudder,
- slow to,
- out of hand,
- balking,
- rattled,
- cranky,
- harassed,
- unrestful,
- peevish,
- stressy,
- stubborn,
- -racked,
- grim,
- in suspense,
- dilatory,
- paranoid,
- resistant,
- bothered,
- Resisting,
- fractious,
- frayed,
- harry,
- say,
- indomitable,
- ungovernable,
- cling,
- preoccupied,
- wound up,
- unmoldable,
- growling,
- unbiddable,
- disgruntled,
- lose,
- resentful,
- unaccepting,
- obstinate,
- strain,
- strong-willed,
- unhappy,
- stiff-necked,
- petulant,
- hung up,
- ill,
- reluctant,
- strung up,
- rest,
- bulldogged,
- worrywart,
- wired up,
- prey,
- bellyaching,
- Clingy,
- set,
- awkwardly,
- defiant,
- perverse,
- complaining,
- case-hardened,
- disappointed,
- persevering,
- backward,
- pigheaded,
- refractory,
- unsatisfied,
- jumpy,
- grousing,
- opinionated,
- gun,
- croaking,
- pertinacious,
- ornery,
- tremble,
- bulletheaded,
- in a stew,
- froward,
- in a sweat,
- tenterhooks,
- Griping,
- pin,
- unenthusiastic,
- unfulfilled,
- dread,
- nervously,
- frantic,
- contumacious,
- het up,
- dogmatic,
- shrewish,
- chafing,
- agitate,
- highly strung,
- strongheaded,
- mulish,
- Fretting,
- crabby,
- cat,
- unmalleable,
- nervy,
- haunted,
- uncontrollable,
- intimidated,
- sullen,
- cow,
- aflutter,
- rebellious,
- perfunctory,
- screwed up,
- ungratified,
- heart,
- impatient of control,
- apathetic,
- antsy,
- fraught,
- worrier,
- hunted,
- troubled,
- self-willed,
- slow,
- distracted,
- in a lather,
- worried,
- bullheaded,
- uneasy,
- envious,
- sweat,
- grumbling,
- demented,
- hyped up,
- faultfinding,
- dissatisfied,
- stress,
- uncomfortable,
- murmuring,
- anxious,
- concernedly,
- indifferent,
- concern,
- balky,
- impatient,
- bated,
- butterfly,
- intractable,
- breathless,
- hardheaded,
- frightened,
- care,
- recalcitrant,
- irrepressible,
- Complaintful,
- unaccommodating,
- unzealous,
- high-strung,
- laggard,
- querulant,
- intolerant,
- mind,
- Breachy,
- malcontent,
- wayward,
- awkward,
- hopped-up,
- apprehensive,
- overstrung,
- disconcerted,
- overwrought,
- squirming,
- alarmed,
- concerned,
- discontented,
- flap,
- dogged,
- unmanageable,
- pit,
- unsubmissive,
- unregenerate,
- Crabbing,
- beefing,
- fret,
- jittery,
- incorrigible,
- antsy-pantsy,
- hasty,
- squirmy,
- headstrong,
- bigoted,
- stressed (out),
- stress puppy,
- wild.
Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- refuse,
- Stickling,
- cussed,
- irritable,
- turbulent,
- athirst,
- riled,
- diffident,
- slack,
- feverish,
- uncompliant,
- quick-tempered,
- fastidious,
- shrinking,
- disinclined,
- roiled,
- fanatical,
- testy,
- Humorsome,
- panicky,
- faltering,
- crabbed,
- Restiff,
- knave,
- crook,
- insomniac,
- brash,
- mutinous,
- hesitant,
- Qualmish,
- page,
- repugnant,
- rise,
- itchy,
- Incompliant,
- mutiny,
- sleepless,
- indisposed,
- scallywag,
- dislike,
- rebel,
- scamp,
- rascal,
- hesitating,
- strike,
- unconsenting,
- hysterical,
- squeamish,
- scrupulous,
- involuntary,
- heady,
- resist,
- Demurring,
- Sinistrous,
- rusty,
- impostor,
- untamable,
- upset,
- swindler,
- rapscallion,
- unnerved,
- varlet,
- jolting,
- uncomplying,
- touchy,
- deaf to,
- imp,
- waking,
- wakeful,
- cad,
- disobedient,
- worked up,
- ungoverned,
- rogue,
- shy of,
- Boggling,
- disquieted,
- rough,
- volatile,
- insubordinate,
- adverse,
- on tenterhooks,
- agog,
- cantankerous,
- awake,
- hot-blooded,
- Pervicacious,
- Hard-headed,
- secede,
- opposed,
- unwilling,
- fickle,
- changeable,
- bold,
- Resty,
- remiss,
- Exceptious,
- ruffled,
- averse,
- insurgent,
- villain,
- champ the bit,
- cross,
- sensitive,
- loth,
- queasy,
- jack,
- mercurial,
- scoundrel,
- unsleeping,
- monkey,
- shaky,
- seditions,
- cheeky,
- rocky,
- riotous,
- disturbed,
- lawless,
- emotional,
- irascible,
- prickly,
- rise in arms.
How to use "Restive" in context?
Restive usually means impatient, irritable, and restless. There is a grain of truth to this definition in that many people can become restless after prolonged periods of inactivity. This can manifest itself in various ways, from pacing around a room to fidgeting with your hands. Nevertheless, restive behavior can also be disruptive, leading to arguments and even violence.
When it comes to mental health, restive behavior is closely linked to irritability. According to a study published in The Journal of Positive Psychology, people who are irritable are more likely to display restive behavior.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
troubled.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
chaotic, choppy, disputed, nervous, precarious, rebellious, troublesome, troubling, uneasy, unstable, war-torn.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
confused, disordered, disturbed, jittery, restless, tumultuous, turbulent, unsettled, strife-torn.
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Noun, singular or mass
flashpoint, lawless.
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Adjective
Homophones for Restive:
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