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- Dictionaryagitated/ˈadʒɪteɪtɪd/
adjective
- 1. feeling or appearing troubled or nervous: "there's no point getting agitated"
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worried or angry: She became very agitated when her son failed to return home. There was a long delay, and people became increasingly agitated as they waited for the train. See. agitate. Fewer examples. His grandfather has Alzheimer's and often grows confused and agitated at night.
to argue forcefully, especially in public, in order to achieve a particular type of change: The unions continue to agitate for higher pay. As a young man, he had agitated against the Vietnam war. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Arguing & disagreeing. agent provocateur. alienated. argue with someone. argumentatively.
The meaning of AGITATED is troubled in mind : disturbed and upset. How to use agitated in a sentence.
agitate suggests obvious external signs of nervous or emotional excitement. in his agitated state we could see he was unable to work. upset implies the disturbance of normal or habitual functioning by disappointment, distress, or grief. the family's constant bickering upsets the youngest child.
Using agitated to describe things or people usually means that something has been stirred up or set in motion in a way that’s a bit messy or turbulent. When people become agitated , their emotions have been stirred up—the word implies the opposite of stillness or calm.
The verb agitate means "to shake up." So someone who is agitated has been shaken up by something — disturbing news, a careless driver who nearly caused a huge accident, or just a very long, very bad day. Agitated can also describe being activated, or fired up about something.
When you get agitated, your emotions get stirred up by something that’s frustrating, annoying, or stressful. When physical things are agitated, they are literally stirred up—the part of a washing machine that agitates the clothes (spins them around in the water) is called an agitator.
