Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Wildly excited or active; frantic; frenzied.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to or accompanied by mental disorder.
- Frenzied; frantic.
- Also spelled phrenetic, phrenetical.
Wiktionary
- adj. Fast, frantic, harried, or frenzied; having extreme enthusiasm or energy.
- adj. obsolete Mentally deranged, insane.
- adj. obsolete, medicine Characterised by manifestations of delirium or madness.
- n. One who is frenetic.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
Etymologies
- From Old French frenetike, from Latin phreneticus, from Ancient Greek *φρενητικός ("delirious"), from φρενῖτις ("delirium"), from φρήν ("mind"). Compare frantic. (Wiktionary)
- 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A simple yet fun idea, but also a practical way to determine a low frequency in frenetic key searches around the house in key moments like being late for work or for an important meeting.”
“Currently, there are many retired generals appearing in frenetic fashion on television … Apart from the ethical questions involved in promoting a book or showcasing a media appearance during a time of war by offering an “inside” view unknown to others of the supposedly culpable administration of the military, what is striking is the empty nature of these controversies rehashed ad nauseam.”
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“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.”
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“The 'self-righteous' label might have said more about him than about me, but there's a touch of truth in the 'frenetic' - because I am a firm believer that entrepreneurs have a nomadic soul.”
“Fundamentalism has developed threee internet stooges and they seem to be going in frenetic high gear — especially the first two: Mou Lartuneac, Flash Gordon — from North Dakota, no less — and our own beloved (and I like him, honest, and let me be clear about one thing: I would never say of him that he’s going around in high gear, never) Jonald CS Donson.”
“In the grocery store, Shopsin found a kind of frenetic peace in cultivating and deepening his relationship with his customers (one of whom, Eve, he married).”
“I feared the kind of frenetic FX overkill that wrecked director Barry Sonnenfeld's post - "MIB" fiasco "Wild Wild West.”
“Throughout the evening and night, press swarmed all over the crowd catching every moment that showed some kind of frenetic energy.”
“Althouse: Mickey used the word 'frenetic' before chicken.”
"Obama's the calm guy and McCain is the chicken running around with his head cut off."
“This week, the NYSE was "frenetic," said a veteran floor broker, with episodes of "unbelievable stress.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frenetic’.
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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SAT Words
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abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Naresh_Gre2
convoke, cosset, coterie, declaim, distaff, doff, dovetail, droll, dyspeptic, egress, ersatz, euphemism and 108 more...
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These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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cicatrix
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minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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Express Yourself
Words Describing Emotions
abhor, diffident, bullience, effusice, enervate, frenetic, impetuous, implacable, listless, mercurial, rancorous, reticent and 7 more...
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"IC" ending words
pendantic, elastic, autistic, archiac, civic, eccentric, aspic, basic, caustic, acoustic, anemic, antic and 17 more...
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abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 481 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Words
My list of words.
veritable, facetious, nadir, quixotic, apropos, acquiesce, ostensible, insipid, egregious, inveterate, coax, adroit and 409 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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my GRE words
pedant, wizened, histrionic, logorrhea, frenetic, approbation, quibble, knell, acclivity, droog, prevarication, aplomb and 182 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
Tweets
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pqnga I once was in a position to interview professional organists.
For an audition piece, I chose Charles-Marie Widor’s “Toccata”
(from Symphony No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 42 No. 1, for
those who care about such things), a frenetic piece that
sounded suitably difficult to my amateur ears. Mar 23, 2011
sionnach I can think of no other word to describe the pace of street life in Buenos Aires. In my more evil moments I like to fantasize about the fate of your average Granadine pedestrian transplanted to the killer sidewalks of B.A. They would be trampled underfoot in a matter of seconds. Which is, frankly, all that they would deserve. Sep 2, 2009