Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Disturbed; excited; expressing agitation: as, in an agitated manner; “an agitated countenance,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated.
  • adjective throwing oneself from side to side.
  • adjective physically disturbed or set in motion. Opposite of unagitated and left alone, allowed to stand.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of agitate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective physically disturbed or set in motion
  • adjective troubled emotionally and usually deeply

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Examples

  • From this time till half - past two I became constantly more agitated -- _agitated, _ perhaps, is too strong a word -- but I was restless and anxious beyond what I should have chosen to acknowledge.

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • From this time till half - past two I became constantly more agitated -- _agitated, _ perhaps, is too strong a word -- but I was restless and anxious beyond what I should have chosen to acknowledge.

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • From this time till half-past two I became constantly more agitated -- _agitated_, perhaps, is too strong a word -- but I was restless and anxious beyond what I should have chosen to acknowledge.

    The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • His expression agitated me so that I unconsciously rose to my feet and warned him off with my fan; but he seemed rooted to the spot.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

  • We have two or three questions that are up before the people of Canada today, and you do not hear them agitated from the strictly agricultural standpoint.

    The Agriculture of the Province 1914

  • IT was about a week later that Edward Mottisfont rang David Blake up on the telephone and begged him in agitated accents, to come to Mr. Mottisfont without delay.

    The Fire Within 1913

  • Rome was again agitated by the bloody feuds of the barons, who detested each other, and despised the commons: their hostile fortresses, both in town and country, again rose, and were again demolished: and the peaceful citizens, a flock of sheep, were devoured, says the Florentine historian, by these rapacious wolves.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • The patient was described as agitated, confused, physically assaultive, and unresponsive to the psychiatrist’s mental status evaluation.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • The patient was described as agitated, confused, physically assaultive, and unresponsive to the psychiatrist’s mental status evaluation.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • The patient was described as agitated, confused, physically assaultive, and unresponsive to the psychiatrist’s mental status evaluation.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

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