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restive 音標拼音: [r'ɛstɪv] a. 不愿向前走的,倔強的,難駕御的 不願向前走的,倔強的,難駕禦的 restive adj 1: being in a tense state [ synonym: { edgy}, { high- strung}, { highly strung}, { jittery}, { jumpy}, { nervy}, { overstrung}, { restive}, { uptight}] 2: impatient especially under restriction or delay; " the government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive" Restive \ Rest" ive\ ( r? st"? v), a. [ OF. restif, F. r[' e] tif, fr. L. restare to stay back, withstand, resist. See { Rest} remainder, and cf. { Restiff}.] . Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back. [ 1913 Webster] Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as some horses do. -- E. Philips ( 1658). [ 1913 Webster] The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag him [ Abraham Holmes] to the gallows became restive, and went back. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Inactive; sluggish. [ Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Uneasy; restless; averse to standing still; fidgeting about; -- applied especially to horses. -- Trench. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Rest" ive}, adv. -- { Rest" ive* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 151 Moby Thesaurus words for " restive": antsy, antsy- pantsy, anxious, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, beefing, bellyaching, beyond control, bigoted, bitching, breachy, breathless, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case- hardened, chafing, complaining, complaintful, contumacious, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, cross- grained, defiant, dilatory, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, dogged, dogmatic, eager, edgy, envious, excited, fanatic, faultfinding, fidgety, fluttery, fractious, fretful, fretting, froward, fussy, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grudging, grumbling, hardheaded, hasty, headstrong, hopped- up, impatient, impatient of control, impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, incorrigible, indifferent, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, intolerant, intractable, irrepressible, laggard, loath, malcontent, malcontented, mulish, murmuring, muttering, nervy, obstinate, obstreperous, on edge, opinionated, ornery, out of hand, out of humor, overzealous, peevish, perfunctory, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, petulant, pigheaded, querulant, querulous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, resentful, resistant, resisting, restless, self- willed, set, shrewish, slow, slow to, squirming, squirmy, stiff- necked, strong- willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, tense, unaccepting, unaccommodating, unbiddable, uncontrollable, uncooperative, uneasy, unenthusiastic, unfulfilled, ungovernable, ungratified, unhappy, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unpatient, unquiet, unregenerate, unrestful, unruly, unsatisfied, unsettled, unsubmissive, unzealous, uptight, wayward, whiny, wild, willful, wrongheaded
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