AGITATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agitated mean? 

• AGITATED (adjective)
  The adjective AGITATED has 2 senses:

1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply

2. physically disturbed or set in motion

  Familiarity information: AGITATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGITATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Troubled emotionally and usually deeply

Context example:

agitated parents

Similar:

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)

amok; amuck; berserk (wildly frenzied and out of control)

Also:

excited (in an aroused state)

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)

discomposed (having your composure disturbed)

Antonym:

unagitated (not agitated or disturbed emotionally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Physically disturbed or set in motion

Context example:

the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled

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)

 Context examples 

They may become agitated or see things that are not there.

(Dementia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

She beheld what fixed her to the spot and agitated every feature.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Keep calm, and if your partner becomes agitated, the less you say, the better.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The person may also be agitated and have hallucinations, and extreme excitement.

(Delirium, NCI Dictionary)

A process that removes water or volatile solvents from an agitated or tumbling bed of solids by relying on heat transfer from the equipment surface or a hot gas to the solid sample.

(Moving Bed Drying Method, NCI Thesaurus)

The cousin who was travelling towards them could hardly have less than visited their agitated spirits—one all happiness, the other all varying and indescribable perturbation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The person may become withdrawn, agitated, and depressed.

(Elder Abuse, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

The Duke is greatly agitated, and, as to me, you have seen yourselves the state of nervous prostration to which the suspense and the responsibility have reduced me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs Croft left them, and Captain Wentworth, having sealed his letter with great rapidity, was indeed ready, and had even a hurried, agitated air, which shewed impatience to be gone.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)