英语词汇“restlessly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adv

To do something restlessly is to do it in a uneasy or anxious way. When you're worried about something, you might sleep restlessly, waking several times throughout the night.

Someone who sits restlessly through a boring class might fidget, and a crowd waiting restlessly for a band to come on stage may mill around in an impatient way. When you're restless, you're bored or anxious, and acting restlessly means demonstrating those feelings. The similar Old English word restleas meant "deprived of sleep."

WORD FAMILY

restless: restlessly, restlessness+/rest: rested, rester, restful, resting, restless, rests, unrest/rested: unrested/rester: resters/restful: restfuler, restfulest, restfully, restfulness/restlessness: restlessnesses/unrest: unrests

USAGE EXAMPLES

Alone in the house, Mariam paced restlessly, from the kitchen to the living room, up the steps to her room and down again.

Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007)

Whereas the lyric poet waits and so tends towards silence, these two are always restlessly arranging, adding and rearranging.

The Guardian(Oct 21, 2016)

Tibbetts’s study, illustrated with photographs and drawings, is a must-read for any admirer of this restlessly protean man of letters.

Washington Post(Oct 19, 2016)

adv in a restless manner

he cracked his knuckles restlessly

单词	restlessly
释义	restlessly (once / 1796 pages) adv To do something restlessly is to do it in a uneasy or anxious way. When you're worried about something, you might sleep restlessly, waking several times throughout the night. Someone who sits restlessly through a boring class might fidget, and a crowd waiting restlessly for a band to come on stage may mill around in an impatient way. When you're restless, you're bored or anxious, and acting restlessly means demonstrating those feelings. The similar Old English word restleas meant "deprived of sleep." WORD FAMILY restless: restlessly, restlessness+/rest: rested, rester, restful, resting, restless, rests, unrest/rested: unrested/rester: resters/restful: restfuler, restfulest, restfully, restfulness/restlessness: restlessnesses/unrest: unrests USAGE EXAMPLES Alone in the house, Mariam paced restlessly, from the kitchen to the living room, up the steps to her room and down again. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) Whereas the lyric poet waits and so tends towards silence, these two are always restlessly arranging, adding and rearranging. The Guardian(Oct 21, 2016) Tibbetts’s study, illustrated with photographs and drawings, is a must-read for any admirer of this restlessly protean man of letters. Washington Post(Oct 19, 2016) adv in a restless manner he cracked his knuckles restlessly
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