English > agitated: 2 senses > adjective 1Meaning | 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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