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AGITATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Troubled emotionally and usually deeply
Example:
agitated parents
Classified under:
Similar:
amok; amuck; berserk (wildly frenzied and out of control)
aroused; emotional; excited; worked up ((of persons) excessively affected by emotion)
distraught; overwrought (deeply agitated especially from emotion)
jolted; shaken (disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock)
feverish; hectic (marked by intense agitation or emotion)
frantic; frenetic; frenzied; phrenetic (excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion)
hysterical (marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion)
psychedelic ((of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair)
wild-eyed (appearing extremely agitated)
Also:
tense (in or of a state of physical or nervous tension)
unsteady (subject to change or variation)
unquiet (characterized by unrest or disorder)
impatient (restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition)
excited (in an aroused state)
discomposed (having your composure disturbed)
Antonym:
unagitated (not agitated or disturbed emotionally)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Physically disturbed or set in motion
Example:
the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled
Classified under:
Similar:
churning; roiled; roiling; roily; turbulent ((of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence)
churned-up; churning (moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation)
jolted (bumped or shaken jerkily)
rippled; ruffled (shaken into waves or undulations as by wind)
seething (in constant agitation)
stirred (set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend)
Antonym:
unagitated (not physically disturbed or set in motion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb agitate
Context examples:
No sleep now, so I may as well write. I am too agitated to sleep.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The window was open, and she distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly agitated.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His lips trembled a little, so that the rough thatch of brown hair which covered them was visibly agitated. His tongue even strayed out to moisten them.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began: In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Here Meg's partner appeared, to find her looking much flushed and rather agitated.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mixing by adding solids to agitated liquids.
(Dissolution Mixing, NCI Thesaurus)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient have any other aggressive or agitated behaviors?
(NPI - Any Other Aggressive or Agitated Behaviors, NCI Thesaurus)
Mr. Holmes, said the vicar in an agitated voice, the most extraordinary and tragic affair has occurred during the night.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No, no, not at all—only a little agitated.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
No, answered Elinor, with a smile, which concealed very agitated feelings, on such a subject I certainly will not.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
