Grouchy vs Agitated - What's the difference?
grouchy | agitated |
Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.
* 1911 , , Chapter III,
* 1922 , , Chapter XXXI,
* 1922 , Henry William Fischer, , Author's Preface,
(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 an adjective grouchy
is irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.As a verb agitated is
(agitate).grouchy
English
Adjective
(er)- His boss gets grouchy when deadlines draw near.
- Not that young Pat had a nasty temper, or was grouchy as his father had feared.
- He went in to mumble that he was "sorry, didn't mean to be grouchy ," and to inquire as to her interest in movies.
- In Berlin I once heard Susie Clemens—ill-fated, talented girl, who died so young—say to her father: "Grouchy again! They do say that you can be funny when company is around—too bad that you don't consider Henry Fisher company."
Synonyms
* cranky * grumpy * tetchyReferences
agitated
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Verb
(head)agitate
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.
