Irritable vs Agitated - What's the difference?
irritable | agitated |
Capable of being irritated.
Easily exasperated or excited.
Responsive to stimuli.
(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 irritable
is capable of being irritated.As a verb agitated is
past tense of agitate.irritable
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* irritably * irritability * irritable bowel syndromeagitated
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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.
