4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
agitated \agitated\ adjective
1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of
{unagitated}. agitated parents
Note: Narrower terms are: {demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught,
overwrought; {disturbed, jolted, shaken}; {feverish,
hectic}; {frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied};
{psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ;
{wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient,
tense, unquiet, unsteady.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.
Syn: tossing
[WordNet 1.5]
3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated
mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of {unagitated} and
{left alone}, {allowed to stand}.
Note: [Narrower terms are: {churning, churned-up, roiling,
roiled, roily, turbulent ; {stirred}.]
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Agitate \Ag"i*tate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Agitated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Agitating}.] [L. agitatus, p. p. of agitare to put in
motion, fr. agere to move: cf. F. agiter. See {Act},
{Agent}.]
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind
agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. ''Winds .
. . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
2. To move or actuate. [R.] --Thomson.
3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was
greatly agitated.
The mind of man is agitated by various passions.
--Johnson.
4. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a
controversy hotly agitated. --Boyle.
5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to
contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians
agitate desperate designs.
Syn: To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract;
revolve; discuss; debate; canvass.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
agitated
adjective
1: troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents"
[ant: {unagitated}]
2: physically disturbed or set in motion; "the agitated mixture
foamed and bubbled" [ant: {unagitated}]
3: thrown from side to side; "a tossing ship" [syn: {tossing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "agitated":
abashed, afflicted, all shook up, all-overish, anxious,
anxioused up, apprehensive, aroused, beset, bothered, bustling,
cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, concerned, confused, discomfited,
discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, disquieted, distressed,
disturbed, embarrassed, excited, fearful, feverish, fidgeting,
fidgety, flurried, flustered, fluttering, fluttery, foreboding,
fretful, fussing, fussy, hung up, ill at ease, in a pucker,
in a quiver, in a stew, jittery, jumpy, misgiving, mortified,
moved, nervous, nervy, on tenterhooks, out of countenance,
overanxious, overapprehensive, perturbed, put-out, put-upon,
quivering, quivery, rattled, restless, roused, ruffled, shaken,
shaken up, shaking, shaky, shivering, shivery, shook up, skittery,
solicitous, stirred up, strained, suspenseful, tense, trembling,
trembly, tremulant, tremulous, troubled, troublous, turbulent,
twitchy, twittery, uncomfortable, uneasy, unnerved, unpeaceful,
unquiet, unsettled, upset, wrought up, zealous
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