Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Agitation (Irregular motion)

Nouns
  • agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance
  • jactitation, quassation
  • shuffling etc. v.
  • twitter, flicker, flutter. turbulence, perturbation
  • commotion, turmoil, disquiet
  • tumult, tumultuation
  • hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits
  • carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus. spasm, throe, throb, palpitation, convulsion. disturbance, chaos etc. (disorder) [Absence, or want of Order, etc.] Disorder
  • restlessness etc. (changeableness) Changeableness. ferment, fermentation
  • ebullition, effervescence, hurly-burly, cahotage
  • tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea, whirlpool, vortex etc. [Motion in a continued circle.] Rotation
  • whirlwind etc. (wind) [Air in motion] Wind.
Verbs
  • be agitated etc.
  • shake
  • tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf
  • quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle
  • wriggle, wriggle like an eel
  • dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort [U.S.]
  • squirm. throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat
  • flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker
  • bustle. ferment, effervesce, foam
  • boil, boil over
  • bubble up
  • simmer. toss about, jump about
  • jump like a parched pea
  • shake like an aspen leaf
  • shake to its center, shake to its foundations
  • be the sport of the winds and waves
  • reel to and fro like a drunken man
  • move from post to pillar and from pillar to move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard. agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt
  • jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.
Adjectives
  • shaking etc. v.
  • agitated tremulous
  • desultory, subsultory
  • saltatoric
  • quasative
  • shambling
  • giddy-paced, saltatory, convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter.
Adverbs
  • by fits and starts
  • subsultorily etc. adj.
  • hop skip and jump
  • in convulsions, in fits.