restive vs unsteady

restive

adj
  • Resistant to control; stubborn. 

  • Impatient under delay, duress, or control. 

  • Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction. 

unsteady

adj
  • Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior. 

  • Lacking regularity or uniformity. 

  • Not held firmly in position, physically unstable. 

verb
  • To render unsteady, removing balance. 

How often have the words restive and unsteady occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )