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uneasy, restless, on the move

adj. not affording rest; "spent a restless night"; "fell into an uneasy sleep"

querulous, whiney, whining, whiny

adj. habitually complaining; "a whining child"

agitated

adj. troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents"

uneasy, nervy, nervous, overstrung, restive, fidgety, edgy, high-strung, jittery, jumpy, uptight, in suspense

adj. being in a tense state

impatient

adj. restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"

restless, fidgety, itchy

adj. unable to relax or be still; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "itchy for excitement"; "a restless child"

nervous, skittish, spooky

adj. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

fitful, spasmodic

adj. occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire"

anxious, disquieted, nervous, unquiet

adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"

apprehensive, uneasy

adj. in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"

distressed, unstrung

adj. emotionally upset; "the incident left him unstrung and incapable of rational effort"

disturbed, unsettled

adj. lacking order or stability: "these unsettled times"

fractious, cranky, irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy

adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

feisty, touchy

adj. quick to take offense

cross, fussy, crabbed, crabby, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered

adj. perversely irritable

cantankerous, crotchety, ornery

adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

disagreeable, ill-natured

adj. not to your liking; "a most disagreeable journey"; "a disagreeable old man"; "in a disagreeable mood"

carping, caviling, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling, cavilling

adj. quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

meticulous, painstaking, finical, finicky, fussy, pernickety, persnickety, punctilious

adj. excessively concerned about niceties

impatient

adj. restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"

intolerant

adj. unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion

riotous, turbulent, troubled, tumultuous, disorderly, disruptive

adj. characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"

faultfinding, grumbling

adj. tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

protesting, protestant

adj. making a protest

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