1. Troubled emotionally and usually deeply
   "agitated parents"
    
2. Physically disturbed or set in motion
   "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled"

1. Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
   "The protest march agitated the whole city";
   - rouse, turn on, charge, commove [archaic], excite, charge up
    
2. Move or cause to move back and forth
   "The chemist agitated the flask vigorously";
   - shake
    
3. Change the arrangement or position of
   "The earthquake agitated the careful arrangement of items";
   - disturb, shake up, stir up, raise up
    
4. Try to stir up public opinion
   "The activists agitated for political reform";
   - foment, stir up
    
5. Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
   "She is agitating for women's rights";
   - crusade, fight, press, campaign, push

See also: amok, amuck, aroused, berserk, churned-up, churning, discomposed, distraught, emotional, excited, feverish, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hectic, hysterical, impatient, jolted, overwrought, phrenetic, psychedelic, rippled, roiled, roiling, roily [N. Amer], ruffled, seething, shaken, stirred, tense, turbulent, turnt, unquiet, unsteady, wild-eyed, worked up, wrought-up

Type of: advertise, advertize [US, non-standard], displace, disturb, flack [N. Amer, informal], move, promote, provoke, push, stimulate, trouble, upset

Antonym: calm, unagitated

Encyclopedia: Agitated