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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31. Some residents of Ciudad Ju á rez are growing restive over the government's failure to stem the violence.
32. Shia state its border , adjacent to where its own restive Shias live, would horrify Saudi Arabia.
33. As it was, I at length grew restive in the extreme under his distasteful supervision.
More similar words: festive, digestive, suggestive, restrictive, digestive system, festival, festivity, prestige, arresting, restitute, exhaustive, distinctive, respective, destructive, interesting, restitution, prestigious, respectively, irrespective, overestimate, destructively, underestimate, interestingly, representative, irrespective of, underestimation, prestidigitation, house of representatives, manifest destiny, rest.