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synonyms for agitating

  • alarming
  • annoying
  • bothersome
  • creepy
  • depressing
  • disconcerting
  • discouraging
  • distressing
  • embarrassing
  • frightening
  • irritating
  • ominous
  • painful
  • perplexing
  • sinister
  • startling
  • threatening
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • unpleasant
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • vexing
  • worrisome
  • worrying
  • aggravating
  • discommoding
  • discomposing
  • dismaying
  • foreboding
  • harassing
  • impeding
  • perturbing
  • provoking
  • trying
  • burdensome
  • consequential
  • difficult
  • disagreeable
  • discomforting
  • gloomy
  • hard
  • inconvenient
  • irksome
  • laborious
  • onerous
  • pessimistic
  • prophetic
  • severe
  • tiresome
  • toilsome
  • uncertain
  • wearisome

antonyms for agitating

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  • agreeable
  • auspicious
  • comforting
  • delightful
  • easy
  • encouraging
  • good
  • happy
  • helpful
  • nice
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • firm
  • smooth
  • steady
  • cheerful
  • happy
  • indifferent
  • unemotional
  • unmoving
  • wonderful
  • blah
  • blunt
  • calm
  • dull
  • numb
  • pleasant
  • soothing
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    How to use agitating in a sentence

    I must aspire to the agitating transports of self-devotion, in scenes of sacrifice and peril!
    THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
    Fear knocked loudly at her heart, whenever she asked of it this agitating question.
    THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIE
    In these ideas, agitating the heart of Phlippon, behold the origin of the French Revolution.
    MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
    Ancient art was the garment in which the young and world-agitating ideas of Christianity were compelled to veil themselves.
    THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
    It is the men who propound agitating ideas and who revolutionize the character of nations, that are persecuted.
    BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD
    Whether he is or whether he is not a wine boomer would not ordinarily be a query of agitating importance.
    THE ONLOOKER, VOLUME 1, PART 2VARIOUS
    He was not sorry thus to gain a few hours of solitude, to think over the agitating events of the preceding day.
    PEVERIL OF THE PEAKSIR WALTER SCOTT
    In the middle of this agitating scene Mzli arrived, perfectly happy and filled with her recent experiences.
    MAEZLIJOHANNA SPYRI
    The men are agitating for a meeting of the board of directors.
    MEETING OF THE BOARDALAN EDWARD NOURSE
    The second day had been more agitating in some ways than his first.
    ROBERT HARDY'S SEVEN DAYSCHARLES MONROE SHELDON
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