What's the difference between inquiet and unquiet?

Inquiet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To disquiet.

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Unquiet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To disquiet.
  • (a.) Not quiet; restless; uneasy; agitated; disturbed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
  • (2) To paraphrase Swift, unquiet and sleep-defeating intrigue abounds, and what will happen next is anyone's guess.
  • (3) And I am sad to see that I don’t have any power or rights to speak, because I know if I speak, harm will come to me.” The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw praised Weerasethakul’s new film in his Cannes review, as an “essay in psychogeography and a meditation on death, the presence of the spirit world in nature and the unquiet ghosts of guilt and pain in the Thai nation, as symbolised by the military”.
  • (4) Horror is the realm of the unquiet dead, a place where hands burst from graves and corpses lurch to life – grotesquely fantastical expressions of very real psychological truths.
  • (5) "Flat, with an unrelieved and monotonous flatness, enough of itself, some might say, to drive a man to unquiet and sleep-defeating thoughts."

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