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Restive vs Twitchy - What's the difference?

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Restive is a related term of twitchy.


As adjectives the difference between restive and twitchy

is that restive is impatient under delay, duress, or control while twitchy is susceptible to twitching a lot.

restive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Impatient under delay, duress, or control.
  • * 1914 , :
    • The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in.
  • *
  • Resistant of control; stubborn.
  • *
    • Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.
  • Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction.

    • Synonyms

    * (impatient under duress) anxious, champing at the bit, fidgety, restless, uneasy * (resistant of control) disobedient, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, unruly * (refusing to move) balky

    Derived terms

    * restively * restiveness

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    twitchy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • susceptible to twitching a lot.
  • (figuratively) irritable, cranky
  • * 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
    • Johnson's contract expires in November, and four weeks as memorable for scandals off the pitch as any achievements on it will do little to appease the notoriously twitchy committee-men at the Rugby Football Union.