Meaning

3 senses
  1. In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.

    They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.

    außer sich, rasend

    неи́стовыйneístovyj, бе́шеныйbéšenyj, вне себя́vne sebjá

    несамовитийnesamovytyj, шаленийšalenyj

  2. Extremely energetic.

    frantic music

  3. (archaic)Insane, mentally unstable.

More definitions
  • excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
  • marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion

Examples

65 sentences
  1. Tom is frantic.

    Том шаленіє. — deniko

    deTom ist verzweifelt. — freddy1

  2. Tom was frantic, but Mary wasn't.

  3. I know that Tom is frantic.

  4. I didn't think Tom would be so frantic.

  5. Tom told me he thought Mary was frantic.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush:
Русский
By meaning 1
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush:

Origin

From Middle English frantike, frentik, variant of frenetik, from Old French frenetique, fr

From Middle English frantike, frentik, variant of frenetik, from Old French frenetique, from Late Latin phreneticus, alteration of phreniticus, from φρενιτικός (phrenitikós, “mad, suffering from inflammation of the brain”), from φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”), from φρήν (phrḗn, “the brain”). Doublet of frenetic and phrenitic.

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Forms

more frantic, most frantic
Comparativemore frantic Lesson
Superlativemost frantic Lesson

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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