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Definition: Frantic |
FranticAdjective1. Excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye". 2. Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frantic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
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Literature | Frantic Brain-struck (Greek, phren, the heart as the seat of reason), madness being a disorder of the understanding. "Cebel's frantic rites have made them mad." Spenser. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: FranticSynonyms: delirious (adj), excited (adj), frenetic (adj), frenzied (adj), mad (adj), phrenetic (adj), unrestrained (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitation | Flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth; fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal. |
Insanity | Maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory. |
Violence | Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Frantic |
| English words defined with "frantic": Corybantic ♦ delirious ♦ Eleutheromania, Enfeloned, excited ♦ Frenetical, Frenetir, Frenzical ♦ Phrenetical, Phrensy ♦ unrestrained. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "frantic": Alexander of the North ♦ Gergesa. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "frantic": Lymphatic. (references) |
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Lyrics | Like Harrison Ford I'm getting Frantic (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Frantic (1988) Donald Duck's Frantic Antic (1975) | |
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 | Berserk; beside oneself; blazing; carried away; convulsive; crazed; crazy; delirious; distracted; distraught; emotional; excited; agitated; fiery; frantic; frenzied; fuming; furious; impassioned; impetuous; incensed; irrepressible; mad; maddened; nervous. |
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Steven Wright | When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. When he gets older, I'd tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn't obey. |
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King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | O, preposterous And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen, Or let me die, to look on death no more |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | As the embankment grew steeper and steeper, the more frantic were the efforts of the land turtle |
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Business | The Greek Internet market continues to increase; though, not at the frantic rate that was observed previously. (references) | |
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Sylvia Browne | Every dream has a meaning. Every dream has a meaning. Even the ones that are spotty and, you know, you're here and you jump here and you do this and you're, you know, you're frantic. |
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| "Frantic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.35% of the time. "Frantic" is used about 544 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.35% | 535 | 11,490 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.92% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.73% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 544 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "frantic": frantic frenetic phrenetic frenzied. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "frantic": frantic-mad. | |
Ending with "frantic": near-frantic. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "frantic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i xhindosur (demoniacal, furious, mad, possessed, wrathful), i tërbuar (berserk, berserker, enraged, frenzied, furious, mad, rabid, rampageous, rampant, riotous, wild), i furishëm (driving, furious, vehement), i egërsuar (boisterous, infuriating), i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, muddy, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit, wild). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسعور (crazy, frenetic, frenzied, hydrophobic, mad, rabid, wild), شديد الاهتياج (frenetic, frenzied). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страхотен (awesome, devilish, direful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, morbid, tremendous, unearthly), ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), неистов (frenzied, rabid, rampant), безумен (cockeyed, insane, lunatic, mad, wild). (various references) | |
Chinese | 狂热 (Fanatic, Fanatical, feverish, frenetic, Rabid), 狂暴 . (various references) | |
Czech | zuřivý (blazing, ferocious, fierce, furious, furred, rabid, savage, vehement, violent). (various references) | |
Finnish | vimmattu (frenzied, furious), raivoisa (furious, mad), hurja (furious, unrestrained, violent, wild). (various references) | |
French | frénétique (frenetic, frenzied, fretful), personne hors de soi, éperdue. (various references) | |
German | außer sich (exasperated). (various references) | |
Greek | έξαλλοσ (aboil, berserk, delirious, distracted, furious, hay wire, raving), μαινόμενοσ (berserk, ragging), μανιώδησ (fierce, furious, inveterate, rabid), μανιώδης, παράφρων (demented, insane, paranoiac), φρενιτιώδης, αλλόφρων. (various references) | |
Hebrew | רעש (agitated, excited). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tomboló (delirious with, furious, rampageous, raving), frenetikus, eszeveszett (bereft of reason, crazed), őrjöngő (berserk, frenzied, maniac, maniacal, rampageous, raving), őrült (bereft of reason, bonkers, crackpot, crazy, demented, distraught, insane, lunatic, to work like blazes, wacky, whacky). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gila-gilaan (exessive, foolhardy, foolish, like mad), galak (fierce, gruff, impudent, plucky, sharp and mean, snappish, surly, vicious), edan (crazy, insane, mad, wild). (various references) | |
Italian | fuori di sé, frenetico (berserk, fantastic, frenzied, rapturous, raving mad). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 物狂おしい (like mad), 死に物狂い (desperate), 必至 (desperation, inevitable death, inevitable result), 必死 (desperation, inevitable death, inevitable result). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しにものぐるい (desperate), ひっし (brush and paper, description, desperation, inevitable death, inevitable result), ものぐるおしい (like mad). (various references) | |
Manx | er rouyl (frenzied, mad, rabid, to gad about). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vill (ferocious), panisk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anticfray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | frenético (berserk, frenetic, frenzied, furious, partisan, phrenetic), inquieto (agitated, anxious, bustling, disquiet, fidgety, fretful, fussy, nervous, on edge, preoccupied, qualmish, restive, restless, troubled, uneasy, unquiet), desvairado (haggard), agitado (agitated, astir, bustling, choppy, eventful, fidgety, fretful, fussy, hectic, jumpy, restless, rough, sleepless, trembling, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled, working). (various references) | |
Romanian | furios (desperate, enraged, fiery, furious, high, hot-headed, howling, in anger, irate, ireful, like fury, mad, passionate, raging, rampageous, robust, scowling, storming, wanton, wild, wrathful), frenetic (frantically, frenzied, phrenetic, phrenetically, violent, wild), nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, fool, foolish, frenzied, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly, wild), ieşit din minţi, delirant (delirious, light-headed, raving, wild). (various references) | |
Russian | отчаянный;лихорадочный, неистовый (boisterous, dithyrambic, frenetic, furious, outrageous, rampageous, rampant, tearing, towering, vehement), бешеный (baresark, berserk, berserker, crazed, furious, mad, rabid, tearing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pomaman (frenetic, rabid, raving), mahnit (furious, insane, mad). (various references) | |
Spanish | frenético (berserk, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, phrenetic, wild). (various references) | |
Swedish | frenetisk (frenetic, frenzied, phrenetic), förtvivlade, väldig (almighty, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, grand, huge, immense, mighty, oceanic, swingeing, swinging, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping), utom sig (distraught, in a stew), upphetsad (aroused, excited, fevered, feverish, feverous, on fire, wrought up, wroughtup), rasande (apoplectic, delirous, enraged, furious, furiously, irate, ireful, livid, raging, savage, tearing, up in the air, wild), hemsk (abysmal, agonizing, alarmed, atrocious, awful, bloodcurdling, creepy, dire, dismal, dismayed, dreadful, dreary, dumbfounded, eerie, eery, fell, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, put out of countenance, terrible, terrific, uncanny, weird, wicked), hektisk (hectic). (various references) | |
Turkish | zıvanadan çıkmış (out of joint), hummalı (febrile, frenetic, with fever), boşuna (empty, for nothing, gainless, in vain, needless, no dice, no go, no good, of no avail, otiose, to no avail, to no end, unavailing, unnecessarily, useless, vainly), aşırı heyecanlanmış (overwrought), ümitsiz (drear, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, gone, hopeless, past cure, past hope, pathetic), çılgınca (far out, frenetic, frenzied, like mad, tearing, wild), çıldırmış (bereft of reason, bereft of senses, crazy, distraught, insane). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | страшний (awful, blood-curdling, dread, frightful, ghastly, grisly, hair raising, horrible, horrid, terrible), шалений (amok, amuck, boisterous, dithyrambic, ecstatic, fierce, frenzied, lunatic, mad, outrageous, pelting, stormy, unruly, vehement, wild), несамовитий (amok, amuck, delirious, ecstatic, heartbreaking, heartrending, irresponsible, non compos, outrageous, passionate, phrenetic, violent). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | điên r" (balmy), điên cu"ng (demented, distracted, distraught, frenezied, insane, loco, wild). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | attonbitus, furiosi, turbidam, turbido. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "frantic": frantically, franticness, franticnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Frantic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fanti, ferrantis, Foretich, franits, franzi, frastic, frati, fratri, frentic, frontis, frontist, furandi, rantic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "frantic" (pronounced fra"ntik) |
| 5 | -a" n t i k | antic, gigantic, pedantic, romantic, semantic, sycophantic, transatlantic. |
| 4 | -n t i k | authentic, orthodontic, unauthentic. |
| 3 | -t i k | acetic, acoustic, acrobatic, aerobatic, aesthetic, agnostic, alphabetic, altruistic, amniotic, anachronistic, analytic, anesthetic, antagonistic, Antarctic, antibiotic, anticlimactic, antiseptic, aortic, apathetic, apocalyptic, apologetic, apoplectic, aquatic, arctic, aristocratic, arithmetic, aromatic, arthritic, artistic, ascetic, asthmatic, astronautic, asymptomatic, atavistic, atheistic, athletic, attic, autistic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, ballistic, bombastic, bureaucratic, capitalistic, catalytic, cathartic, caustic, chaotic, characteristic, charismatic, chauvinistic, chiropractic, cinematic, climactic, climatic, coloristic, cosmetic, critic, cryptic, cultic, cystic, democratic, dendritic, despotic, deterministic, diabetic, diagnostic, diagrammatic, dialectic, diamagnetic, didactic, dietetic, diplomatic, diuretic, dogmatic, domestic, dramatic, drastic, drumstick, dualistic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, eclectic, ecliptic, ecstatic, elastic, electrolytic, electromagnetic, electrostatic, emblematic, emetic, empathetic, emphatic, energetic, enigmatic, enthusiastic, enzymatic, epigenetic, epileptic, erotic, erratic, euphemistic, evangelistic, exotic, expressionistic, extragalactic, fanatic, fantastic, fatalistic, ferromagnetic, feudalistic, fiberoptic, frenetic, futuristic, galactic, genetic, geomagnetic, granitic, gymnastic, halophytic, hectic, hedonistic, hemolytic, hepatic, heretic, hermaphroditic, holistic, homeostatic, homiletic, humanistic, hyperkinetic, hypnotic, iconoclastic, idealistic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imperialistic, impressionistic, individualistic, inelastic, interscholastic, jingoistic, journalistic, kinesthetic, kinetic, lactic, legalistic, linguistic, logistic, lymphatic, magnetic, majestic, masochistic, materialistic, mathematic, mechanistic, melodramatic, militaristic, monastic, monochromatic, monopolistic, moralistic, mystic, narcissistic, narcotic, nationalistic, naturalistic, neritic, neurotic, novelistic, numismatic, oligopolistic, onomastic, operatic, opportunistic, optic, optimistic, pancreatic, pantheistic, paralytic, paramagnetic, parasitic, parasympathetic, parthenogenetic, paternalistic, pathetic, patriotic, patristic, pectic, peptic, peripatetic, pessimistic, phonetic, phosphatic, plastic, pluralistic, pneumatic, poetic, polytheistic, porphyritic, posttraumatic, pragmatic, primitivistic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, propagandistic, prophetic, prophylactic, prostatic, prosthetic, psychoanalytic, psychosomatic, psychotherapeutic, psychotic, puristic, quixotic, realistic, relativistic, rheumatic, ritualistic, robotic, rustic, sadistic, sarcastic, schematic, scholastic, semiautomatic, semiotic, sensationalistic, septic, simplistic, skeptic, socialistic, static, statistic, stylistic, surrealistic, symbiotic, sympathetic, symptomatic, synergistic, synthetic, systematic, tactic, technocratic, terroristic, thematic, theocratic, therapeutic, thermoplastic, thrombolytic, traumatic, triptych, unapologetic, uncharacteristic, undemocratic, undiplomatic, unenthusiastic, unpatriotic, unrealistic, unsympathetic, voyeuristic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: infarct, infract. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: fracti. | |
-2 letters: actin, afrit, antic, cairn, craft, faint, farci, franc, infra, naric, riant, train, triac. | |
-3 letters: airn, airt, anti, cain, cant, carn, cart, fact, fain, fair, fiar, fiat, firn, frat, frit, naif, narc, raft, rain, rani, rant, rift, tain, tarn. | |
-4 letters: act, aft, ain, air, ait, ani, ant, arc, arf, art, can, car, cat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: crafting, fraction, infarcts, infracts. | |
+2 letters: fabricant, factoring, fornicate, fractions, furcating, furcation, infarcted, infracted, interface, kingcraft. | |
+3 letters: craftiness, fabricants, fascinator, fornicated, fornicates, fornicator, fractional, fractioned, fracturing, frictional, furcations, handicraft, infarction, infracting, infraction, interfaced, interfaces, kingcrafts, refracting, refraction, sanctifier, vociferant. | |
+4 letters: bifurcating, bifurcation, centrifugal, cofeaturing, confiscator, diffracting, diffraction, fabricating, fabrication, factorizing, fascinators, forecasting, fornicating, fornication, fornicators, fractionate, fractioning, frantically, franticness, functionary, handicrafts, infarctions, informatics, infractions, interfacial, interfacing, rarefaction, refractions, reification, rubefacient, sanctifiers, trafficking. | |
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