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
Bram Stokerwas so agitated she could hardly speak
agitatedly
adverb
pacing back and forth agitatedly
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
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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
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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
See All Example Sentences for agitated
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“Agitated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agitated. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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