| agitated | adj. 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. [ WordNet 1.5 ] 2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.
Syn. -- tossing [ WordNet 1.5 ] 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. ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ] |
