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frenetic

[ fruh-net-ik ]

adjective

  1. frantic; frenzied.


frenetic

/ frɪˈnɛtɪk /

adjective

  1. distracted or frantic; frenzied


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Derived Forms

  • freˈneticness, noun
  • freˈnetically, adverb

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Other Words From

  • fre·neti·cal·ly adverb
  • nonfre·netic adjective
  • nonfre·neti·cal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of frenetic1

First recorded in 1350–1400; frantic

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Word History and Origins

Origin of frenetic1

C14: via Old French frenetique from Latin phrenēticus , from Greek phrenētikos , from phrenitis insanity, from phrēn mind

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Example Sentences

Other research shows teens have been getting more sleep and feeling less taxed by their formerly frenetic schedules.

However, confronting the covid crisis has been an ongoing case of catch-up, trying to find and correlate critical data to save lives, and Geraghty doesn’t want to see that level of frenetic activity repeated.

NBA free agency tends to be frenetic, but this year’s delayed and condensed period was a full-fledged speed-dating session.

Laimbeer said he didn’t change much tactically, and the Aces didn’t even play at their typical frenetic pace.

During the day, these hummingbirds’ tiny-yet-mighty hearts can beat 1,200 times a minute to power their frenetic lifestyle.

The whole scene looks like a frenetic burlesque show-themed bachelorette party.

The meeting will cap a frenetic fundraising season for the conservative donor network.

With alternating chapters, the novel takes us on a frenetic journey through the perspectives of these unlikely apocalyptos.

To preserve the frenetic flavor of the scene, I have left in the interview a few of these interruptions.

I don't quite understand how a city can be so sedate and frenetic at the same time, but somehow Los Angeles manages it.

Never in my life did I hear such frenetic and yet cordial applause.

“Frenetic to be free,” like the pennon, is in this sense the concentration of its meaning.

And the toy flag there floated where he raised it aloft, "frenetic," as Browning says, "to be free."

His coal-black eyes suddenly flashed with fanatic, frenetic light.

There was in him the frenetic unconscious desire to rid himself of the thing he had come to believe inferior.

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