restive

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more restive

Superlative

most restive

1.
Impatient under delay, duress, or control.
Đồng nghĩa: anxious, champing at the bit, fidgety, restless, uneasy
2.
Resistant to control; stubborn.
Đồng nghĩa: disobedient, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, unruly
3.
Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction.
Đồng nghĩa: balky

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

anxiouschamping at the bitfidgety restless uneasy disobedient rebellious recalcitrant refractory uncooperative unruly balky

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unrestiverestively restiveness

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Nguồn gốc từ

Modification of earlier restiff, from Middle English restyf, from Old French restif, from rester (to stay, remain), from Latin restō. * Shares an etymology with rest ("to remain," obsolete) *Merriam-Webster states that this word was originally used to describe horses that disobeyed commands. Presumably, then, the word came to mean fidgety or anxious more broadly.