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Definition of Agitative
1. Adjective. Causing or tending to cause anger or resentment. "A provoking delay at the airport"
Definition of Agitative
1. a. Tending to agitate.
Definition of Agitative
1. Adjective. Tending to agitate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agitative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agitative
Literary usage of Agitative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1910)
"Compassion differs from generosity in that it is an impulsive reaction to a
feeling-state which is agitative as well as expansive. ..."
2. The Negro Races: A Sociological Study by Jerome Dowd (1914)
"... is especially great for people who are subject to the agitative mood, and also
for individuals who work excessively, and are subject to weariness. ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"... by loss of consciousness, lasting for about twenty minutes. Subsequently delirium.
Since about three years he has had shocks, agitative movements ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"... by loss of consciousness, lasting for about twenty minutes. Subsequently delirium.
Since about three years he has had shocks, agitative movements ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"... was affected with constant agitative movements of the pelvis and lower extremities.
Sir Astley Cooper, in his work on fractures and dislocations, ..."
6. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1892)
"... most frequently in a wild, agitative tone. Part of the most effective work,
however, was done where politics should have been excluded on principle, ..."
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