1 unable to stay still or be happy where you are, because you are bored or need a change:
The audience was becoming restless. * After five years in the job, he was beginning to feel restless. * The children always get restless on long trips.
2 without real rest or sleep:
a restless night * He woke from a restless sleep.
restlessly adverb:
He moved restlessly from one foot to another.
restlessness noun [U]:
the restlessness of youth
