Disquiet is a vague, nagging sense that something is not right. Growing disquiet, express disquiet, a note of disquiet.
It is quieter than alarm and harder to answer, because nobody has said what is wrong — public disquiet is the phrase for a mood that has not yet become a complaint. The dis- reverses quiet, and the word is a noun far more often than a verb.
1noundisquietA vague, nagging sense that something is not right.
“There is growing disquiet among parents about the plan to close the school.”
disquiet is an unease.
Latin
quiētus
French
quiet
Middle English
quiete
English
quiet
English, today
disquiet
Built from
From dis- + quiet. quiet comes from Middle English quiete, from French quiet, from Latin quiētus. From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet and quiete, from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiesco (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). a doublet of coy and quit and quite and quietus. Largely displaced native English still in the sense of "with little or no sound".
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