Animated vs Agitated - What's the difference?
animated | agitated |
Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
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(animate)
(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 animated and agitated
is that animated is past tense of animate while agitated is past tense of agitate.As an adjective animated
is endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.animated
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.
