agitative
Definition
Adjective: 1. Causing agitation; tending to stir up or provoke a reaction, often of anger, unrest, or excitement: The word describes something that has the quality or effect of disturbing, exciting, or inciting people, often leading to a state of mental or emotional disturbance or to public unrest.
Usage and Examples
- General Use: Used to describe speech, writing, actions, or situations that are deliberately inflammatory or have the effect of provoking strong feelings.
- The politician's agitative rhetoric worried community leaders.
- The documentary was criticized for its agitative and one-sided portrayal of the conflict.
- Spreading rumors in such a tense environment is an agitative act.
Advanced Usage
- Formal/Journalistic Context: Often appears in formal analysis of politics, media, or social movements to describe elements that incite unrest.
- The report analyzed the agitative role of certain media outlets during the crisis.
Variants and Related Words
- Agitate (verb): To stir up public feeling; to campaign for or against a cause; to disturb or excite emotionally.
- They continued to agitate for political reform.
- Agitation (noun): A state of anxiety or nervous excitement; the act of stirring up public concern for a cause.
- She was in a state of great agitation.
- The agitation for workers' rights grew stronger.
- Agitator (noun): A person who stirs up public feeling, especially for political change.
- He was labeled a political agitator.
Synonyms
- Provocative: Causing annoyance, anger, or another strong reaction, especially deliberately.
- Inflammatory: Arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings.
- Incendiary: Tending to stir up conflict; designed to cause fires (literal and figurative).
- Subversive: Seeking or intended to undermine an established system or institution.
Antonyms
- Calming: Making someone or something tranquil and quiet.
- Pacifying: Quelling the anger, agitation, or excitement of.
- Soothing: Gently calming; reducing pain or discomfort.
- Conciliatory: Intended or likely to placate or pacify.
Adjective
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causing or tending to cause anger or resentment
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a provoking delay at the airport
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