RESTIVE


Meaning of RESTIVE in English

adj.1 fidgety; restless.

2 (of a horse) refusing to advance, stubbornly standing still or moving backwards or sideways; jibbing; refractory.

3 (of a person) unmanageable; rejecting control.

Derivatives:

restively adv. restiveness n.

Etymology: ME f. OF restif -ive f. Rmc (as REST(2))

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.