agitated
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Adjective (2)
- troubled emotionally and usually deeply“agitated parents”Opposite unagitatedSimilar frantic, feverish, aroused, jolted, wild-eyed, distraught, hysterical, psychedelic +2 moreSee also discomposed, excited, impatient, unquiet, unsteady, tense
- physically disturbed or set in motion“the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled”Opposite unagitatedSimilar churning, rippled, jolted, seething, stirred
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated. agitated parents 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.
2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side. Syn. — tossing
3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of unagitated and left alone, allowed to stand. [Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent ; stirred.]
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC, WordNet 1.5