Antonyms of verb agitate

1 of 6 senses of agitate

Sense 2
agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up -- (cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks")
       Antonym of calm (Sense 1)
      => calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still -- (make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb agitate

6 senses of agitate

Sense 1
agitate, foment, stir up -- (try to stir up public opinion)
       => provoke, stimulate -- (provide the needed stimulus for)

Sense 2
agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up -- (cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks")
       => disturb, upset, trouble -- (move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought")

Sense 3
crusade, fight, press, campaign, push, agitate -- (exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate")
       => advertise, advertize, promote, push -- (make publicity for; try to sell (a product); "The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops")

Sense 4
stir, shift, budge, agitate -- (move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat")
       => move -- (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right")

Sense 5
shake, agitate -- (move or cause to move back and forth; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking")
       => move -- (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right")

Sense 6
agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up -- (change the arrangement or position of)
       => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant")

Antonyms of adj agitated

2 senses of agitated

Sense 1
agitated (vs. unagitated) -- (troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents")

unagitated (vs. agitated) -- (not agitated or disturbed emotionally)

Sense 2
agitated (vs. unagitated) -- (physically disturbed or set in motion; "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled")

unagitated (vs. agitated) -- (not physically disturbed or set in motion)
        => nonturbulent -- ((of a liquid) not turbulent; "nonturbulent flow")
        => unstirred -- (not agitated by stirring; "the ingredients sat in the bowl unstirred while she buttered the pan")

Similarity of adj agitated

2 senses of agitated

Sense 1
agitated (vs. unagitated) -- (troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents")
       => aroused, emotional, excited, worked up -- ((of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise")
       => distraught, overwrought -- (deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief")
       => jolted, shaken -- (disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the accident left her badly shaken")
       => feverish, hectic -- (marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace")
       => frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied -- (excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye")
       => hysterical -- (marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion; "hysterical laughter"; "a mob of hysterical vigilantes")
       => psychedelic -- ((of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair; "a psychedelic experience")
       => wild-eyed -- (appearing extremely agitated; "crowded the wild-eyed animals into a truck")
          Also See-> discomposed#1; excited#2; impatient#1; tense#1; unquiet#1; unsteady#1

Sense 2
agitated (vs. unagitated) -- (physically disturbed or set in motion; "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled")
       => churning, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent -- ((of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids")
       => churning, churned-up -- (moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation; "winds whipped the piled leaves into churning masses"; "a car stuck in the churned-up mud")
       => jolted -- (bumped or shaken jerkily; "the jolted passengers")
       => rippled, ruffled -- (shaken into waves or undulations as by wind; "the rippled surface of the pond"; "with ruffled flags flying")
       => seething -- (in constant agitation; "a seething flag-waving crowd filled the streets"; "a seething mass of maggots"; "lovers and madmen have such seething brains"- Shakespeare)
       => stirred -- (set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend)