RESTIVE Synonyms

• nervous and unable to relax

• being in a tense state

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• being in a tense state

• lacking or not affording physical or mental rest

• worried and uneasy

• ceaselessly in motion

• nervous and unable to relax

• lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance

• lacking or not affording physical or mental rest

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner

• relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort

• troubled emotionally and usually deeply

• physically disturbed or set in motion

• restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition

• (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness

• easily irritated or annoyed

• abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

• capable of responding to stimuli

• of or relating to the nervous system

• easily agitated

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• excited in anticipation

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• refusing to proceed, act or work

• not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority

• unwilling to submit to authority

• characterized by jerky movements

• being in a tense state

• being in a tense state

• showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger

• offensively bold

• being in a tense state

• too tightly strung

• resisting control or authority

• discontented as toward authority

• participating in organized resistance to a constituted government

• stubbornly resistant to authority or control

• marked by stubborn resistance to authority