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All ill at ease synonyms

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adj ill at ease

  • anxious — If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
  • apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
  • awkward — An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
  • disturbed — marked by symptoms of mental illness: a disturbed personality.
  • doubtful — of uncertain outcome or result.
  • edgy — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
  • fidgety — restless; impatient; uneasy.
  • hesitant — hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
  • insecure — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
  • nervous — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
  • on edge — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
  • restless — characterized by or showing inability to remain at rest: a restless mood.
  • self-conscious — excessively aware of being observed by others.
  • shy — bashful; retiring.
  • suspicious — tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
  • tense — in a state of mental or nervous strain; high-strung; taut: a tense person.
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • uneasy — not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.
  • unsettled — not settled; not fixed or stable; without established order; unorganized; disorganized: an unsettled social order; still unsettled in their new home.
  • unsure — not certain or confident: He arrived at the party unsure of his welcome.
  • disquieted — lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
  • faltering — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
  • on pins and needles — a tingly, prickly sensation in a limb that is recovering from numbness.
  • on tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
  • out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • relaxed — being free of or relieved from tension or anxiety: in a relaxed mood.
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