noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a vague unease/dread
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I felt a vague unease.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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Again the drone of the plane seemed to echo a deeper unease , which again came to the surface of her mind.
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Jessamy's temper gradually faded away and in its place came a deep feeling of unease .
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Opinion polls have revealed a deep unease about Maastricht throughout the country.
■ VERB
feel
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And now I feel unease again.
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She never lost her feeling of unease .
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Yet she could not, once that first convulsion was past, feel any unease .
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He felt a twinge of unease even now at the memory.
sense
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Even at that early age, Celia sensed a strange unease , a tension amongst the grown-ups.
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But he sensed an unease beneath the directness.
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Clearly, pupils will sense a teacher's unease in presenting poetry to them, and are then likely to respond negatively.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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There is a growing sense of unease in the financial world about the industry's future.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fire truck or an ambulance whoops somewhere beyond the window, adding cruelly to my unease .
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A frown touched her brow to recall the feeling of unease that had gripped her during that brief conversation.
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He felt a curious mixture of elation and unease .
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He felt a twinge of unease even now at the memory.
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Hess, however, took it with equanimity, and laughed at Edward's own unease .
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The planning at Brighton revealed some of the unease in relations with the local authority.
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Those inequities have fed the public unease , and they appear to have yielded at least cosmetic results.