Usually means: Disorder due to public dissatisfaction.
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  1. unrest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unrest: Merriam-Webster
  3. unrest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unrest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unrest: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unrest: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unrest, unrest: Wordnik
  8. unrest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unrest: Wiktionary
  10. unrest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unrest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unrest: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unrest: Dictionary.com
  14. unrest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unrest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Unrest (Henry Cow album), Unrest (band), Unrest (video game), Unrest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Unrest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. unrest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. unrest: Rhymezone
  20. unrest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. unrest: FreeDictionary.org
  22. unrest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. unrest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. unrest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. unrest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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  1. unrest: Legal dictionary

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  1. unrest: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unrest)

▸ noun:  A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.
▸ noun:  Something that troubles or confuses; that which causes unrest.

Similar:
agitation, ferment, fermentation, riot, randan, revel-rout, riotise, riotry, riot boosting, ruffiandom, more...

Opposite:
peace, quiet, calm, tranquility

Types:
mutiny, revolt, rebellion, insurrection, uprising, more...

Phrases:
social unrest, civil unrest, industrial unrest, labour unrest, Kenosha unrest shooting, more...

Adjectives:
social, political, civil, industrial, general, popular, widespread, internal, much, domestic, agrarian

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Similar:
agitation, ferment, fermentation, riot, randan, revel-rout, riotise, riotry, riot boosting, ruffiandom, more...

Opposite:
peace, quiet, calm, tranquility

Types:
mutiny, revolt, rebellion, insurrection, uprising, more...

Phrases:
social unrest, civil unrest, industrial unrest, labour unrest, Kenosha unrest shooting, 2004 unrest in Kosovo, 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, 2021 South African unrest, 2022 Kazakh unrest, more...

Adjectives:
social, political, civil, industrial, general, popular, widespread, internal, much, domestic, agrarian

Colors:
    red,     black,     gray,     dark red,     maroon, more...



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