Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
troubled emotionally and usually deeply;
- Example: "agitated parents"2.
physically disturbed or set in motion;
- Example: "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
agitated \agitated\ adj.
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
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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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Agitate \Ag"i*tate\, v. t. [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.
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2. To move or actuate. [R.] --Thomson.
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3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was
greatly agitated.
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The mind of man is agitated by various passions.
--Johnson.
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4. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a
controversy hotly agitated. --Boyle.
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5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to
contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians
agitate desperate designs.
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Syn: To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract;
revolve; discuss; debate; canvass.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
agitated
adj 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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