noun
1. feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable (Freq. 2)
• Syn: ↑edginess, ↑inquietude, ↑disquietude
• Hypernyms: ↑anxiety
• Hyponyms: ↑willies
2. physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑uneasy
• Hypernyms: ↑discomfort, ↑uncomfortableness
3. the trait of seeming ill at ease
• Hypernyms: ↑discomposure
4. inability to rest or relax or be still
• Syn: ↑restlessness, ↑queasiness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑queasy (for: ↑queasiness), ↑uneasy, ↑restless (for: ↑restlessness)
• Hypernyms: ↑nervousness
• Hyponyms: ↑jactitation, ↑jactation
5. embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
• Syn: ↑self-consciousness, ↑uncomfortableness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑uncomfortable (for: ↑uncomfortableness), ↑uneasy, ↑self-conscious (for: ↑self-consciousness)
• Hypernyms: ↑embarrassment
Useful english dictionary. 2012.