Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration; frenzied.
- adjective Characterized by rapid and disordered or nervous activity.
- adjective Archaic Mentally deranged.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To run about frantically.
- Mad; raving; wild; distracted: as, frantic with fear or grief.
- Characterized by violence and mental disorder; springing from madness or distraction.
- Synonyms Distracted, infuriate, frenzied, raging.
- noun A frenzied person; a madman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Insane , mentally unstable. - adjective In a state of
panic ,worry ,frenzy orrush . - adjective Extremely
energetic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
- adjective marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word frantic has appeared in 354 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Nov. 14 in "For a Homeless Child, a Long Ride to 4th Grade" by Emily Canal:
NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2011
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Holly figured it was Mia who else would? and there she was, her expression frantic, shivering in the morning chill in just a thin light blue hoodie and jeans.
The Love Goddess’ Cooking School Melissa Senate 2010
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Holly figured it was Mia who else would? and there she was, her expression frantic, shivering in the morning chill in just a thin light blue hoodie and jeans.
The Love Goddess’ Cooking School Melissa Senate 2010
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Holly figured it was Mia who else would? and there she was, her expression frantic, shivering in the morning chill in just a thin light blue hoodie and jeans.
The Love Goddess’ Cooking School Melissa Senate 2010
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Learn more about the word "frantic" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary.com dictionary.
NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2011
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On either side of the steamer, rows of scows received the flying cargo, and on each of these scows a sweating mob of men charged the descending slings and heaved bales and boxes about in frantic search.
CHAPTER I 2010
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There would be a fleeting glimpse of the three men flinging water in frantic haste, when she would topple over and fall into the yawning valley, bow down and showing her full inside length to the stern upreared almost directly above the bow.
Chapter 17 2010
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But things look different inside India, where technology companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars in frantic attempts to ensure that their profit-making machine keeps producing.
India's Achilles Heel, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Alpha taster shouts [in frantic Shatner-esque desperation]:
What's in a score? Audio from a tasting with Robert Parker | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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After 18 months of sparring between the Tories and BBC executives over the level of the licence fee, the future funding of the corporation has been hammered out in frantic negotiations in little over three days, with the broadcaster coming off decidedly second best.
BBC licence fee frozen at £145.50 for six years Mark Sweney 2010
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