Restive

Adjective

 * 1) Impatient under delay, duress, or control.
 * 2) * 1914, Bram Stoker, "Dracula's Guest" in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories:
 * The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in.
 * 1) Resistant of control; stubborn.
 * 2) * 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, ch. 35:
 * Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.
 * 1) Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction.
 * 1) Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction.

Synonyms

 * anxious, champing at the bit, fidgety, restless, uneasy
 * disobedient, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, unruly
 * balky

Adverbs for Restive
strangely; oddly; unmanageably; naturally; hopelessly; incurably; pathetically; obstinately; constantly; pitiably; understandably; helplessly; painfully; impatiently; nervously; feverishly;  fractiously;   reluctantly; openly; visibly; unconcealably; undisguisedly; unhappily; wretchedly; extraordinarily.

Thesaurus
antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, beefing, bellyaching, beyond control, bigoted, bitching, breachy, breathless, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, chafing, complaining, complaintful, contumacious, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, cross-grained, defiant, dilatory, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, dogged, dogmatic, eager, edgy, envious, excited, fanatic, faultfinding, fidgety, fluttery, fractious, fretful, fretting, froward, fussy, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grudging, grumbling, hardheaded, hasty, headstrong, hopped-up, impatient, impatient of control, impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, incorrigible, indifferent, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, intolerant, intractable, irrepressible, laggard, loath, malcontent, malcontented, mulish, murmuring, muttering, nervy, obstinate, obstreperous, on edge, opinionated, ornery, out of hand, out of humor, overzealous, peevish, perfunctory, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, petulant, pigheaded, querulant, querulous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, resentful, resistant, resisting, restless, self-willed, set, shrewish, slow, slow to, squirming, squirmy, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, tense, unaccepting, unaccommodating, unbiddable, uncontrollable, uncooperative, uneasy, unenthusiastic, unfulfilled, ungovernable, ungratified, unhappy, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unpatient, unquiet, unregenerate, unrestful, unruly, unsatisfied, unsettled, unsubmissive, unzealous, uptight, wayward, whiny, wild, willful, wrongheaded

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Derived terms

 * restively
 * restiveness

Anagrams

 * sievert
 * veriest