English > agitated: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Troubled emotionally and usually deeply. |
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| Example | "agitated parents" |
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| Narrower | amuck, amok, berserk | Frenzied as if possessed by a demon |
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| aroused, emotional, excited, worked up | (of persons) excessively affected by emotion |
| distraught, overwrought | Deeply agitated especially from emotion |
| feverish, hectic | marked by intense agitation / agitation or emotion |
| frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied | excessively agitated |
| hysterical | marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion |
| jolted, shaken | disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock |
| psychedelic | (of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair |
| wild-eyed | Appearing extremely agitated |
| See also | discomposed | Having your composure disturbed |
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| excited | In an aroused state |
| impatient | Restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition |
| tense | In or of a state of physical or nervous tension |
| unquiet | Characterized by unrest or disorder |
| unsteady | subject to change or variation |
| Opposite | unagitated | not agitated or disturbed emotionally |
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| Spanish | agitado, inquieto |
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| Catalan | agitat, inquiet |
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