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Agitated vs Fretty - What's the difference?

agitated | fretty |

As a verb agitated

is past tense of agitate.

As an adjective fretty is

covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.

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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    fretty

    English

    Etymology 1

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • (heraldry) Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.
    • ''The coats of various noble British families were originally fretty , but later 'simplified' to a single fret
    Usage notes
    * In heraldic descriptions, the term is used between the color of the field and the color (most often a metal) of the bendlets to specify the tinctures of the fretwork.
    Related terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined to fret, agitated, worrying.
  • (colloquial) Inflamed, like a sore.
    • Synonyms
    * (inclined to fret) (l), (l)