Frenzied

Definition: Frenzied

Frenzied

Adjective

1. Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity".

2. 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".

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Date "frenzied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Frenzied

Insanity

Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head.

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.

Crosswords: Frenzied

Frenzied Flames (1926)

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Books

• Fast, Furious, Frenzied, and Fun: Shaping the Startup Challenge (reference)

• Feelings: Frazzled, Frenzied & Frantic (reference)

• Frenzied Fiction (reference)

• Navigating the Frenzied World of Work (reference)

• Nietzsche: A Frenzied Look (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• 14 Frenzied Shakers (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Humble Yale team turns table on powerful Army eleven before 80,000 frenzied spectators. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "frenzied": frantic frenetic phrenetic frenzied ♦ rampageous raging frenzied. Additional references.

Beginning with "frenzied": Frenzied-ly.

Ending with "frenzied": battle-frenzied, blood-frenzied, drug-frenzied.

Albanian

i tërbuar (berserk, berserker, enraged, frantic, furious, mad, rabid, rampageous, rampant, riotous, wild), i ndërkryer. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسعور (crazy, frantic, frenetic, hydrophobic, mad, rabid, wild), ‏شديد الاهتياج (frantic, frenetic). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обезумял (berserk, distracted, lunatic, mad, wild, witless), неистов (frantic, rabid, rampant), полудял (crazy, gone mad, haywire, loco, mad, possessed), див (barbarous, dark, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, harsh, heathen, lupine, natural, orgiastic, rough, savage, tameless, uncivilized, uncultivated, untamed, wild). (various references)

Chinese 

疯狂 (AMOK, Amuck, Craziness, Crazy, demented, Frenzies, frenzy, insane, insanity, mad, madness, maniacal). (various references)

Czech

frenetický (frenetic, phrenetic), horeèný (feverish, frenetic, hectic), šílený (berserk, crackpot, crazy, demented, furious, harebrained, insane, lunatic, mad, manic, terrible, terrific, tomfool). (various references)

Danish

frenzied anxiety (frenzied anxiety), psykotisk beskæftigelsestrang (frenzied busyness, mania of busyness), delirøs hyperaktivitet (frenzied busyness, mania of busyness). (various references)

Dutch

bezigheidsdelirium (frenzied busyness, mania of busyness). (various references)

Finnish

vimmattu (frantic, furious), hurjistunut (infuriated). (various references)

French

frénétique (frantic, frenetic, fretful), désespéré. (various references)

German

wahnsinnig (brilliant, crazed, crazy, delirious, deliriously, demented, frantic, incredibly, insane, lunatic, mad, madly, maniac, maniacal, nuts, psychotically, raving, terrific). (various references)

Greek 

έξαλλος, ξέφρενοσ (frenetic, wild), ξέφρενος. (various references)

Hebrew 

משתולל (rampant, raving, riotous), יוצא מכליו (frenetic). (various references)

Hungarian

vad (barbarian, barbarous, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, game, gothic, phrenetic, rabid, ramage, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, robustic, rough and tumble, ruffianly, rumbustious, savage, tameless, truculent, wild), dühöngõ (frantic, rampageous, raving), dühöngő (berserk, grim, impetuous, rampageous, raving), õrült (bedlamite, crack-pot, crazy, demented, insane, loony, lunatic, mad), őrjöngő (berserk, frantic, maniac, maniacal, rampageous, raving). (various references)

Italian

frenetico (berserk, fantastic, frantic, rapturous, raving mad), pazzo (Batty, bedlamite, crazy, distracted, fool, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, madman, madmen, maniac, maniacal, moony, off one's rocker, potty, raving, screwy, wacky, wild), indiavolato (daemoniac, daemoniacal, demoniac, demoniacal, furious). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

殺気立つ (to be frenzied, to be menacing, to be seething), 大車輪 (all-out effort, frenzied activity, giant swing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さっき� つ (to be frenzied, to be menacing, to be seething), � いしゃり�" (all-out effort, frenzied activity, giant swing). (various references)

Manx

keoie (crazy, fiery, frenetic, furious, insane, lunatic, maniac, savage, vicious, wild, wild as person), er rouyl (frantic, mad, rabid, to gad about), er ouyl (in a rage, raging). (various references)

Pig Latin

enziedfray.(various references)

Portuguese

frenético (berserk, frantic, frenetic, furious, partisan, phrenetic), enlouquecido (distracted), delirante (light-headed, raving). (various references)

Romanian

frenetic (frantic, frantically, phrenetic, phrenetically, violent, wild), turbat (awful, enraged, furious, furiously, mad, rabid, savage, tremendously), nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, fool, foolish, frantic, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly, wild), apucat (hag-ridden, hot-headed, maggoty), înverşunat (deadly, desperate, fierce, fiery, furious, hot, rabid, sharp, stubborn). (various references)

Russian 

взбешенный (furious, savage), в ярости (amok, amuck), исступленный (ecstatic, frenetic, phrenetic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pomahnitao, pomahnitalo. (various references)

Spanish

frenético (berserk, frantic, frenetic, furious, hectic, phrenetic, wild). (various references)

Swedish

frenetisk (frantic, frenetic, phrenetic). (various references)

Turkish

coşkun (ardent, boiling over, ebullient, effervescent, elated, exalted, exuberant, fervent, impetuous, overflowing, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, sharp), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), çılgınca (far out, frantic, frenetic, like mad, tearing, wild), çılgın (berserk, bonkers, crackpot, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, demon, demoniac, desperado, distracted, foolhardy, frenetic, insane, kook, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, moonstruck, nut, phrenetic, possessed, raving, rip roaring, ripsnorter, scatty, wild). (various references)

Ukrainian

шалений (amok, amuck, boisterous, dithyrambic, ecstatic, fierce, frantic, lunatic, mad, outrageous, pelting, stormy, unruly, vehement, wild), безтямний (addle-brained, addle-pated, enthusiastic, enthusiastical). (various references)

Welsh

gorffwyll (mad). (various references)

fanaticus, insani, insanis, insanum, insanus, vecordem, vecordes, vecordi, vecordia, vesani. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "frenzied": frenziedly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Frenzied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fienzied, Frentzen, frenzed, Frenzee, Frenzel, frezied, frienzied, Renzio. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: definer, refined.

-2 letters: defier, define, denier, fender, ferine, finder, friend, frieze, frized, nereid, redfin, refind, refine, reined.

-3 letters: defer, diene, diner, dizen, eider, ender, fiend, fined, finer, fired, freed, fried, infer, refed.

-4 letters: deer, defi, dene, deni, dere, dine, dire, dree, eide, erne, feed, fend, fere, fern, find, fine, fire, firn, free, friz, ired.

+2 letters: frenziedly.

+3 letters: fraternized.

+4 letters: federalizing, fragmentized, unfertilized.