agitational
- adjective
- /ˌædʒɪˈteɪʃənl/
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agitador
- Her speech was very agitational, motivating everyone to take action and participate in the march.
Examples
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Though none of the scripts have survived, descriptions of them make their agitational character clear: Fox, Box, and Nox was "a delicious farce showing how ragged 'rugged individualism' really is."
Academic text (1995) -
Asco's earliest collaborations included agitational performance pieces, reminiscent of both Dada and '60s street theater.
Academic text (1999) -
Photomontage came into existence through the agitational aspect of modern art.
Academic text (2000) -
Agitational work within the league was also in its infancy.
Academic text (2005) -
But the author's major concern in the chapter is not so much the medium's reproductive as its agitational function.
Academic text (2000) -
Yet he was impressed by their organizational and agitational abilities, their pomp, and their ability to raise money, qualities that the Catholic Workers' Associations in Bavaria lacked throughout the 1920s.
Academic text (1999) -
An agitator enlightens women, educates and mobilizes them, understands all current issues and knows how to explain them precisely, fully recognizes the assignment that agitational work places on her, and systematically raises her own ideological knowledge.
Academic text (2005) -
The community organized an agitational rally to protest the new laws affecting their rights.
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The artist created agitational works designed to inspire political change among the viewers.
Synonyms
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6.7
Causes a strong reaction, for example anger or lively talk
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7.9
Likely to make people angry and cause public protest
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8.6
Making ordinary people angry or excited about politics
About a public protest that shows people's views
Likely to make people protest or cause unrest
Causing many people to become angry and demand political change
Causing people to feel angry or annoyed
Causing people to feel upset or angry
Antonyms
How Provocative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Agitational comes from the Latin verb agitare, which means 'to move' and is related to the common word agitate, which can mean 'to stir up' people or ideas. So an agitational campaign or speech is meant to 'move' people into action or protest.