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agitated
CIDE DICTIONARY
agitated, adj.
- troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of
unagitated ."Narrower terms are:demoniac, demoniacal ;distraught, overwrought ;disturbed, jolted, shaken ;feverish, hectic ;frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied ;psychedelic ;rampageous, raging, frenzied ;wild-eyed ." [WordNet 1.5] - throwing oneself from side to side. [WordNet 1.5]
- physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of
unagitated andleft alone ,allowed to stand ."[Narrower terms are:churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent ;stirred .]" [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
agitated
abashed, afflicted, all shook up, all-overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, aroused, beset, bothered, bustling, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, concerned, confused, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, excited, fearful, feverish, fidgeting, fidgety, flurried, flustered, fluttering, fluttery, foreboding, fretful, fussing, fussy, hung up, ill at ease, in a pucker, in a quiver, in a stew, jittery, jumpy, misgiving, mortified, moved, nervous, nervy, on tenterhooks, out of countenance, overanxious, overapprehensive, perturbed, put-out, put-upon, quivering, quivery, rattled, restless, roused, ruffled, shaken, shaken up, shaking, shaky, shivering, shivery, shook up, skittery, solicitous, stirred up, strained, suspenseful, tense, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, troubled, troublous, turbulent, twitchy, twittery, uncomfortable, uneasy, unnerved, unpeaceful, unquiet, unsettled, upset, wrought up, zealousROGET THESAURUS
agitated
Changeableness
N changeableness, mutability, inconstancy, versatility, mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium, vacillation, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, restlessness, fidgets, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers, wheel of Fortune, transientness, changeable, changeful, changing, mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing, protean, proteiform, versatile, unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled, fluctuating, restless, agitated, erratic, fickle, irresolute, capricious, touch and go, inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, alterable, plastic, mobile, transient, wavering, seesaw, off and on, a rolling stone gathers no moss, pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina.Insanity
N insanity, disordered reason, disordered intellect, diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind, derangement, unsoundness, psychosis, neurosis, cognitive disorder, affective disorder, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration, paranoia, schizophrenia, dementation, dementia, demency, phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain, delusion, hallucination, lycanthropy, brain storm, vertigo, dizziness, swimming, sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis, fanaticism, infatuation, craze, oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice), kleptodipsomania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression, hysteria, amentia, screw loose, tile loose, slate loose, bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story, dotage, insane, mad, lunatic, loony, crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis, not right, cracked, touched, bereft of reason, all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind, insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft, phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic, possessed, possessed with a devil, deranged, maddened, moonstruck, shatterpated, mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained, touched, tetched, off one's head, maniacal, delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering, frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk, delusional, hallucinatory, corybantic, dithyrambic, rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild, haggard, mazed, flighty, distracted, distraught, depressed, agitated, hyped up, bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story, out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, not in one's right mind, fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric, hypped, hyppish, spaced out, imbecile, silly, like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance, the reason under a cloud, tet exaltee, tet montee, ira furor brevis est, omnes stultos insanire.For further exploring for "agitated" in Webster Dictionary Online