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unrested

unrested

1 4.8
Not having had enough sleep or time to relax
  • adjective
translation icon : 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

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
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
unrejuvenated
vsunrested
8.6

Not feeling rested or refreshed after sleep

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

Antonyms

refreshed
1 1.5

Feeling rested and full of new energy after a break

rested
1.0

Not tired after sleeping or taking a break

How Rested

rested
1.0
tired
∞ 1.0
unrested
1 4.8
exhausted
104 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.