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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.
The meaning of AGITATED is troubled in mind : disturbed and upset. How to use agitated in a sentence.
If someone is agitated, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
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.
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. agitate verb (SHAKE) [ T ] chemistry specialized. to shake a liquid:
The earliest known use of the adjective agitated is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for agitated is from 1614, in a translation by Thomas Lodge, author and physician. agitated is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: agitate v., ‑ed suffix1. See etymology.
1. To cause to move with violence or sudden force. 2. To upset; disturb: was agitated by the alarming news. 3. To arouse interest in (a cause, for example) by use of the written or spoken word; discuss or debate. v.intr. To stir up public interest in a cause: agitate for a tax reduction.
