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# uneasily

«uneasily» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a worried, nervous or uncomfortable way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (uneasily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Uneasily means in a worried, nervous or uncomfortable way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneasily/#m1)

2) Uneasily can also mean awkwardly or not settled, like two things sitting uneasily together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneasily/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows a character feeling that something is wrong: looking around uneasily, laughing uneasily, shifting uneasily in a chair. It tells the reader to expect trouble or tension. Phrase: «sit uneasily with» means not to fit well together.

### examples

- She looked around uneasily in the dark corridor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneasily/#x1)
- He laughed uneasily at the strange joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneasily/#x2)
- The dog sniffed the air uneasily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneasily/#x3)
- Tom shifted uneasily in his seat when the teacher asked who did it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneasily/#x4)
- The two ideas sit uneasily together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneasily/#x5)
- We waited uneasily for the test results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneasily/#x6)

### note

From «uneasy» + «-ly»; y becomes i: «uneasily». Opposite: «easily» only in the «comfortable» sense, so better «calmly» or «comfortably».

### Trees and pragmatics

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