frenetic

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  • The pace is frenetic, the humor both broad and pointed so that some jokes may pierce your funny bone while others knock the wind out of you with belly laughs Dorsey's hero, if you can call him that, is the Florida serial killer Serge A. Storms (last seen in The Big Bamboo), whose whirlwind antics are mostly harmless until he encounters one of those aggravating types that the world would be better off without. —  AHMM,May2007
  • While the pace is frenetic, my enthusiasm is undiminished. —  SI.com
  • Adam Carolla and his talk show host pal Jimmy Kimmel chat candidly - in a frenetic, almost stream-of-consciousness way - about pornography, Siegfried and Roy, the modeling industry, gay rodeos and the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are."
  • A frenetic, apparently naked Lodwick ducks in and out of an enveloping darkness. —  Gawker: Valleywag
  • "Companies have moved beyond the short-term frenetic activity that we saw at the beginning of the year," said Andrew Goldstein, North American co-leader of executive compensation consulting at Watson Wyatt. —  San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal
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  1. Middle English frenetik, from Old French frenetique, from Latin phrenēticus, from Greek phrenītikos, from phrenītis, brain disease, from phrēn, mind; see gwhren- in Indo-European roots.
 

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/frikˈnɛtˈɪk, fɑrmɛrj frɛnɛtɪk, frikˈnɛtɪkəl/
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