Alarmed vs Agitated - What's the difference?
alarmed | agitated |
(alarm)
Having an alarm fitted.
Worried; anxious; panicky.
(agitate)
To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
(rare) To move or actuate.
:(Thomson)
To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
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.
As verbs the difference between alarmed and agitated
is that alarmed is (alarm) while agitated is (agitate).As an adjective alarmed
is having an alarm fitted.alarmed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- This door is alarmed .
- I'm extremely alarmed about the army outside my house.
agitated
English
Verb
(head)agitate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.