Fitful vs Agitated - What's the difference?
fitful | agitated |
As an adjective fitful is irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits. As a verb agitated is ( agitate).
fitful English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits.
- His breathing was fitful .
*1605 , Shakespeare, Macbeth ,
- [...] Duncan is in his grave;
- After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
*1851 ,
*:The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door [...]
*2012 , The Economist, The economy: Don’t say “green shoots”
*:So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.
Derived terms
* fitfully
* fitfulness
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agitated English
Verb
(head)
(agitate)
agitate 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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