Restive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RESTIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• uneasy, as if ready to break from control
• (of a person) unable to remain still, silent, or submissive, especially because of boredom or dissatisfaction
• (of a horse) stubbornly standing still or moving backwards or sideways; refusing to advance
• restless or impatient
• Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back.
• Inactive; sluggish.
• Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.
• Uneasy; restless; averse to standing still; fidgeting about; -- applied especially to horses.
• being in a tense state
• impatient especially under restriction or delay
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• difficult to control

Words related to RESTIVE

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Words that contain RESTIVE

arrestive12 restively15 locorestive16 restiveness14 restivenesses16

How to use RESTIVE in a sentence

• All this gave me the notion that the hills were full of the enemy, and I grew as restive as the Indian.
• He was first to hear the sound, and by his restive actions to draw the attention of the fur-traders to it.
• Hallam, at the head of his troop, stroked his handsome moustache continually, and at moments spoke angrily to his restive horse.
• In fact, precisely as a rash, restive horse is said to feel his oats, so Turkey felt his coat.
• The animal restive under the ordeal, demanded all her attention.
• The people already restive under their burdens, would soon discover that those burdens would be greatly diminished by the adoption of the American policy.
• She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain ball.
• Without the bolted door at muse I stand, My restive sponge and towel in my hand.
• They too were loaded with revolutionary debts calling for heavy taxes upon an already restive population.
• It would take a profounder soul than any they had displayed to understand and sympathize with the restive genius hidden under the smooth exterior they saw.
• He could not understand why Egypt should be restive under the same afflictions that he had borne with fortitude.
• We made one vain dash for our quarters, but found only another enormous warehouse, strangely lit, full of clattering waggons and restive horses.
• As she hesitated in the doorway, gazing down upon the waiting, restive crowd, Hugh looked up and saw her.
• All night Aaron McGivins had lain there, restive and unable to sleep.
• Men of science have always been restive under the multiplication of entities.
• He was rather restive under this enforced confinement and one day in attempting to escape from the house he fell from a second story window.
• Getting restive finally, however, as the years wore on.
• From year to year we have found the old ecclesiastics more restive under their loss of support, and more jealous of the progress of spiritual life.
• In that city, ill, restive, his patience gone, he spent some days.
• The usual cursing began, and the men were restive to get at the Porsslanese garrison.
• Evidently, the Count was not well posted in New York distances, because he grew restive, and wondered where I was taking him.
• The horses were restive, and not inclined to stand still.
• The mustang turned in the gate, slid to a stop, and stood quivering, restive, tossing its thoroughbred head, black as a coal, with freedom and fire in every line.
• In his opinion, the whole thing was cut, dried, and done with, and he was still impatient and restive when Mr.
• About her was something subtle, awakened, restive, that I noticed for the first time.
• This made him restive and at the same time increased his passion for her.
• No man was more restive under debt than he, or has better depicted its horrors.
• You shall see a whole family of dolls stricken down simultaneously with malignant measles, or a restive horse evoked from a passive parlor-chair.
• If this course is suggested they grow restive, think they are being held back, and some times prefer to study with a more superficial teacher.
• With it all, however, Cornelia began to wax restive.
• It was after we had passed Mont Valerien, frowning on the horizon, that the man in the pink cotton shirt began to grow restive under so much instruction.
• I had grown restive in my lot and chafed against its narrow round of cell and cloister.

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