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Agitated vs Apprehensive - What's the difference?

agitated | apprehensive |

As a verb agitated

is (agitate).

As an adjective apprehensive is

.

agitated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (agitate)

    • agitate

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (agitat)
  • To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
    • ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
  • (rare) To move or actuate.
  • :(Thomson)
  • To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
    • The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.
  • To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
  • :(Boyle)
  • To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

    • Synonyms

    * move, shake, excite, rouse, disturb, distract, revolve, discuss, debate, canvass

    Related terms

    * agitation * agitator * agitatee * agitable * inagitable

    External links

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    apprehensive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
  • * 1719 ,
    • this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.
  • Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
  • * 1670 ,
    • More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

    Derived terms

    * apprehensively