Synonym: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, in suspense, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, uptight. Similar words: festive, digestive, suggestive, restrictive, digestive system, festival, festivity, prestige. Meaning: ['restɪv] 
adj. 1. being in a tense state 2. impatient especially under restriction or delay.
adj. 1. being in a tense state 2. impatient especially under restriction or delay. 
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1. Communist leaders struggled to rule over increasingly restive populations.
2. The crowd was growing increasingly restive.
3. The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin.
4. The audience grew restive.
5. The men from Foss were restive.
6. The southern region was growing increasingly restive.
7. Her restive fingers toyed with the battered keys.
8. Similar appeals to restive Protestant gunmen came Thursday from civic and church leaders and government officials.
9. If his wife is restive, he sees welfare as a positive invitation from the state for her to dissolve the marriage.
10. Other restive ethnic groups will now be quicker to resort to arms.
11. When the singer was late, the audience grew restive.
12. It is restive, confused, gently millenarian.
13. The cool, restive Halls of the Passed echo with his prophetic voice of eternal wisdom.
14. The crowd grew restive.
15. If Kosovo remains unresolved and restive, the EU will not admIt'serbia as a member.
16. The government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive.
17. Another hour passed and the crowd grew / became restive.
18. He said he found this a useful trick when addressing restive or sleepy audiences.
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19. With daylight and without the restraint of the fires outside the walls, they are more restive than ever.
20. Another person joined the queue and the old lady immediately behind him began to look restive.
21. In the driving mirror I saw the driver of the estate-car was growing restive.
22. After Diem refused to hold the elections in 1956, meanwhile, the Viet Minh in the South grew restive.
23. Not surprisingly, those who are averse to surrendering their sovereignty have become increasingly restive of late.
24. There, he would be another old person elbowed and nudged by the hordes in their restive wildebeest migration in search of gratification.
25. His face was quite stolid, But he looked at her with restive eyes.
26. But with American business and the American public increasingly restive, the risks of miscalculation are growing.
27. The trouble, as you have found, is that the tier below will feel put - upon and restive.
28. Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition.
29. For all of China's wealth, the party is desperate to appease the restive rural masses.
30. Now, they must impose law and order in the restive town of Nablus, better known for its carjackings and gang shooting sprees.
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