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unrested

unrested

1 4.8
Not having had enough sleep or time to relax
  • adjective
: sin descanso
  • After a long week of late nights, he got up feeling unrested and unmotivated to start the day.
  • feeling unrested

Examples

  • As a result, you may wake up feeling unrested.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The other option is to attack unrested.

    Blog text (9)

  • What has always bothered me the most, though, is the feeling of being unrested.

    Blog text (14)

  • She got up feeling tense, unrested, as if she were expecting something that day.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The debate rumbled to a halt at a little after ten when Pop, still unrested from his day in the bass boat, appeared with Marianne and the black doc, a skinny guy with a grizzled beard who was thirty years younger than anyone else in the place.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Many people struggle to concentrate at work because they often wake up feeling unrested.

  • She realized her productivity had dropped since she was consistently feeling unrested in the mornings.

Synonyms

unslept
vsunrested
1 7.4

You feel very tired after staying awake all night

includes lack of sleep but also insufficient rest or not feeling refreshed
unrefreshed
vsunrested
1 6.8

Not feeling rested or full of energy after sleep

focuses on lacking enough rest or sleep rather than just the feeling
unrejuvenated
vsunrested
1 8.6

Not feeling rested or refreshed after sleep

focuses more on physical lack of rest or sleep rather than spirit renewal

Antonyms

rested
41 1.0

Not tired after sleeping or taking a break

refreshed
23 1.5

Feeling rested and full of new energy after a break

How Rested

rested
41 1.0
tired
∞ 1.0
unrested
1 4.8
exhausted
272 2.0

Surface Forms

unrested positive

Morphology

unrested = rested (transparent) = un + rest + ed

The immediate base 'rested' (rest + -ed) is a normal participial adjective and adding 'un-' yields a straightforward negative meaning.

Etymology

The word unrested is formed from the prefix un- ('not') and rest ('to sleep or feel fresh again'), so it literally means 'not rested'. So, unrested describes someone who has not had enough sleep or does not feel refreshed.