agitate

Other forms of agitate

past tense

agitated·

present participle

agitating·

third person

agitates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about agitate

What does agitate mean?

agitate means "try to stir up public opinion". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in agitate?

agitate has 3 syllables: ag-i-tate. The stress falls on "ag". In IPA it is /ˈædʒəˌteɪt/.

What is another word for agitate?

Close synonyms include foment, stir up, rouse, turn on, charge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of agitate?

The recorded antonyms are calm.

Is agitate a common word?

agitate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with agitate?

29 words rhyme with agitate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.