Noun: agitator
| Singular | agitator |
| Plural | agitators |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: instigator; see also Thesaurus:troublemaker
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In addition, they kept a watch on political agitators and foreigners arriving and departing at the port. [1998, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Imperial Power and Popular Politics, page 208:]
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I’m only aware of one anti-ICE raid incident in California over the summer in which a single agitator pointed a pistol at federal agents, and that person is apparently still at large. [2025 September 23, Patrick G. Eddington, “On Trump’s Anti-Antifa Executive Order”, in Cato Institute:]
Nouns inflected like agitator
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English agitate
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
4. Proto-Italic *-tōr
5. Latin -tor
6. Latin -ātor
7. Old French -eorbor.
8. Middle English -our
9. ▲
10. Latin -torlbor.
11. English -or
12. English agitator
13. From agitate + -or.
Verbs referencing "agitator"
German Nouns
Agitator.