agitated

Examples

• All

• The agitated birds flying over the roofs could not settle down and chopped at the sky with their wings, while from the mosque in the market square rose the sorrowful, piercing voice of the muezzin, wailing and making the heart quail.

  Fiction book (1998)

• She pulled out several outfits and laid them on the bed, then, in a flurry of agitated activity, tried each one on and gave it a negative vote.

  Fiction book (1995)

• However, if you take a system for example, that is already agitated, it's going to generally speaking hurt more.

  Dr. Mayim Bialik

• Smaller sharks swept past, their movements quick and agitated.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Apply the gelt solvent, agitated a little bit with the brush, and come back and remove it.

• Could we but peer into the mind of the aforementioned heiress this foul evening, we might see it in a very agitated state.

  Fiction book (1991)

• In his teenage years, before becoming an insurance salesman, his father had worked baling hay on a farm and had one day gotten his collarbone broken by a kick from an agitated horse.

  Fiction book (2001)

• HER MOTHER STOOD WITH SALTS IN HER HAND, EXPECTING TO BE AGITATED, AND HER AUNT TRIED TO CRY.

  Mansfield Park (1999)

• We cruised quickly through the Pentland Firth and westward into the Atlantic, at a shallow enough depth to be able to tell that the ocean surface above us was extremely agitated.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The surface of the pond became agitated as the wind picked up, creating ripples all around.

Synonyms

T

turbulent

vsagitated

34 6.6

Full of confusion and disorder among people, politics, or events

is about physical motion caused by shaking or stirring not general disorder

R

roiling

vsagitated

1 7.6

A liquid moving fast and making rough waves

is physically disturbed by shaking or stirring with less violence

C

churned-up

vsagitated

1 6.0

A surface or material that strong movement makes rough and messy

is physically disturbed by shaking or stirring without stressing messiness

C

churning

vsagitated

4.9

Water that moves in strong, swirling ways

is physically disturbed by shaking or stirring in a milder way

R

roiled

vsagitated

8.3

Water that is cloudy and moving roughly

is physically disturbed by shaking or stirring without implying muddiness

Antonyms

C

calm

735 1.0

Not showing strong feelings and being very still

Compounds

A

agitated depression

• Specialized

1 8.0

A long time of deep sadness when someone cannot sit still and is easily annoyed

How Agitated

churning

4.9

turbulent

34 6.6

agitated

1 4.4

rippled

3.2

calm

735 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology