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# restive

«restive» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unable to keep still, and restless** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unable to keep still, and restless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restive/#m1)

2) Unwilling to be controlled, impatient, and difficult to manage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restive/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a horse that will not stand still and fights its rider

### examples

- The restive horse stamped and would not stand still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restive/#x1)
- The children grew restive during the long wait. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restive/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «restive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.