agitated

adjective

ag·​i·​tat·​ed ˈa-jə-ˌtā-təd 

: troubled in mind : disturbed and upset

When Caswall asked him to describe what he had seen …, he got very agitated …

—Bram Stoker

was so agitated she could hardly speak

agitatedly adverb

pacing back and forth agitatedly

Synonyms

• excited
• feverish
• frenzied
• heated
• hectic
• hyperactive
• overactive
• overwrought

Examples of agitated in a Sentence

all ferry crossings were cancelled because of the agitated waters around the islands

by the time they finally showed up, long after midnight, we'd become so agitated that we never did get to sleep that night

Recent Examples on the Web

Pedestrians scoot past agitated mutterers or calculate their chances of survival before stepping into a crosswalk. —Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025

Female carpenter bees won’t sting unless they’re confined in your hand or become highly agitated. —Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2025

But his soldiers attacked an agitated crowd that opposed Pilate’s use of Temple money to build an aqueduct. —Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025

Trump rejected a 90-day pause in tariffs set to take effect on Wednesday, a bit of rumor that briefly relieved agitated financial markets before it was promptly dismissed by the White House as fiction. —Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 8 Apr. 2025

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of agitate

First Known Use

1684, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for agitated

• abdicated
• abrogated
• acclimated
• activated
• actuated
• adumbrated
• advocated
• aggravated
• aggregated
• allocated
• alternated
• amputated