AGITATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agitating mean? 

• AGITATING (adjective)
  The adjective AGITATING has 1 sense:

1. causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

  Familiarity information: AGITATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGITATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

Synonyms:

agitating; agitative; provoking

Context example:

a provoking delay at the airport

Similar:

provocative (serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy)

 Context examples 

I felt a burning glow mount to my face; for bitter and agitating recollections were awakened by the allusion to marriage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A fortnight, at least, of leisure and peace of mind, to crown every warmer, but more agitating, delight, should be hers.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Norris, much discontented, was obliged to compose herself to work again; and Fanny, walking off in agitating consciousness, found herself, as she anticipated, in another minute alone with Mr. Crawford.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

At this period of my life, my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection: and yet, reader, to tell you all, in the midst of this calm, this useful existence—after a day passed in honourable exertion amongst my scholars, an evening spent in drawing or reading contentedly alone—I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy—dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester, always at some exciting crisis; and then the sense of being in his arms, hearing his voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, being loved by him—the hope of passing a lifetime at his side, would be renewed, with all its first force and fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was long before Fanny could recover from the agitating happiness of such an hour as was formed by the last thirty minutes of expectation, and the first of fruition; it was some time even before her happiness could be said to make her happy, before the disappointment inseparable from the alteration of person had vanished, and she could see in him the same William as before, and talk to him, as her heart had been yearning to do through many a past year.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was obliged to call herself to think of it, and acknowledge it to be terrible and grievous, or it was escaping her, in the midst of all the agitating pressing joyful cares attending this summons to herself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)