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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Wildly excited or active; frantic; frenzied.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Relating to or accompanied by mental disorder.
  2. Frenzied; frantic.
  3. Also spelled phrenetic, phrenetical.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Fast, frantic, harried, or frenzied; having extreme enthusiasm or energy.
  2. adj. obsolete Mentally deranged, insane.
  3. adj. obsolete, medicine Characterised by manifestations of delirium or madness.
  4. n. One who is frenetic.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion

Etymologies

  1. From Old French frenetike, from Latin phreneticus, from Ancient Greek *φρενητικός ("delirious"), from φρενῖτις ("delirium"), from φρήν ("mind"). Compare frantic. (Wiktionary)
  2. 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)

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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

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