Restive vs Agitated - What's the difference?
restive | agitated |
Impatient under delay, duress, or control.
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Resistant of control; stubborn.
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Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction.
(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 restive
is impatient under delay, duress, or control.As a verb agitated is
(agitate).restive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in.
- Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.
Synonyms
* (impatient under duress) anxious, champing at the bit, fidgety, restless, uneasy * (resistant of control) disobedient, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, unruly * (refusing to move) balkyDerived terms
* restively * restivenessAnagrams
* *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.