restive

Adjective complement with noun phrase

get: The consultants are getting a bit restive about their negotiations.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: The old bureaucracy, particularly the increasingly restive military caste, is pressing for an increasingly aggressive foreign policy.
• too: Another is that some parts of central Iraq populated by the once dominant Sunni community remain too restive to assure a large voter turnout.

Used with adjective complement

• grow: The English colonies, with the enemy thus in their rear, grew ever more restive.
• become: A territory where no presence is maintained could become restive, causing production to suffer, or even rebel.
• get: The French, we heard, were getting restive.

Modifies a noun

• population: In response to their restive populations, governments are likely to return to protective barriers.
• minority: That could inspire Turkey's own restive Kurdish minority.
• horse: That was a man in hunting costume, and he rode a spirited and restive horse.
• city: Seven policeman were killed in an insurgent assault on a police checkpoint outside the restive city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad.
• youth: C.A.N. may no longer be able to contain our restive youths should this ugly trend continue.
• crowd: Simultaneously, the restive crowd threw stones and attempts were made to rush the building.