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Agitated vs Cranky - What's the difference?

agitated | cranky |

As a verb agitated

is past tense of agitate.

As an adjective cranky is

weak, unwell.

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

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    cranky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Weak, unwell.
  • Not in good working condition; shaky.
  • * 1914 , '', ''The River of Doubt ,
    • We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky , and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good.
  • Grouchy, irritable; easily upset.
    • He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky .
  • Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
  • * 1934 December, ,
    • Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be.
  • (archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.