Disquiet vs Irritate - What's the difference?
disquiet | irritate | Related terms |
Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.
Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.
* 1594 , , IV. i. 154:
Make (someone) worried or anxious
(lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
(lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
(lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
(lb) To render null and void.
:(Archbishop Bramhall)
Disquiet is a related term of irritate.
As verbs the difference between disquiet and irritate
is that disquiet is make (someone) worried or anxious while irritate is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.As a noun disquiet
is want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.As an adjective disquiet
is deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.disquiet
English
Noun
(-)- The lady exhibited disquiet of mind. In other words, she'd gone a bit mad.
Adjective
(en adjective)- I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet .
Derived terms
* disquieting * disquietudeVerb
(en verb)- He felt disquieted at the lack of interest the child had shown.
