frenetic
[fruh-net-ik]
- frantic; frenzied.
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Origin of frenetic
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Contemporary Examples
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.
Historical Examples
“Frenetic to be free,” like the pennon, is in this sense the concentration of its meaning.
The Browning CyclopdiaEdward Berdoe
It is here worth noticing that Siena, the city of civil discord, was also the city of frenetic piety.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7)John Addington Symonds
Everywhere was joy, gain, revelry; everywhere certainty of the morrow's bread; everywhere the frenetic outbursts of vitality.
Baudelaire: His Prose and PoetryCharles Baudelaire
He had the unwholesome, frenetic aspect of the patent medicine enthusiast, not uncommon in the North.
Two on the TrailHulbert Footner
A cripple without legs having succeeded in seizing a drachma, the applause was frenetic.
ThaisAnatole France
frenetic
- distracted or frantic; frenzied
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Word Origin
C14: via Old French frenetique from Latin phrenēticus, from Greek phrenētikos, from phrenitis insanity, from phrēn mind
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Word Origin and History for frenetic
adj.
late 14c., from Old French frenetike, from Latin phreneticus "delirious," alteration of Greek phrenitikos, from phrenitis "frenzy," literally "inflammation of the brain," from phren "mind, reason" (from PIE *gwhren- "to think") + -itis. The classical ph- was restored mid-16c. Related: Frenetically.
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