Synonyms for agitated

Synonyms for (adj) agitated

Synonyms: agitated

Definition: troubled emotionally and usually deeply

Usage: agitated parents

Similar words: aroused, emotional, excited, worked up

Definition: (of persons) excessively affected by emotion

Usage: he would become emotional over nothing at all; she was worked up about all the noise


Similar words: overwrought, distraught

Definition: deeply agitated especially from emotion

Usage: distraught with grief


Similar words: jolted, shaken

Definition: disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock

Usage: retrieved his named from her jolted memory; the accident left her badly shaken


Similar words: feverish, hectic

Definition: marked by intense agitation or emotion

Usage: worked at a feverish pace


Similar words: frantic, frenetic, frenzied, phrenetic

Definition: excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion

Usage: frantic with anger and frustration; frenetic screams followed the accident; a frenzied look in his eye


Similar words: hysterical

Definition: marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion

Usage: hysterical laughter; a mob of hysterical vigilantes


Similar words: psychedelic

Definition: (of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair

Usage: a psychedelic experience


Similar words: wild-eyed

Definition: appearing extremely agitated

Usage: crowded the wild-eyed animals into a truck


Synonyms: agitated

Definition: physically disturbed or set in motion

Usage: the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled

Similar words: turbulent, churning, roiled, roiling, roily

Definition: (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence

Usage: the river's roiling current; turbulent rapids


Similar words: churned-up, churning

Definition: moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation

Usage: winds whipped the piled leaves into churning masses; a car stuck in the churned-up mud


Similar words: jolted

Definition: bumped or shaken jerkily

Usage: the jolted passengers


Similar words: rippled, ruffled

Definition: shaken into waves or undulations as by wind

Usage: the rippled surface of the pond; with ruffled flags flying


Similar words: seething

Definition: in constant agitation

Usage: a seething flag-waving crowd filled the streets; a seething mass of maggots; lovers and madmen have such seething brains- Shakespeare


Similar words: stirred

Definition: set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend


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