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Phrenetic

Definition: Phrenetic

Phrenetic

Adjective

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "phrenetic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)


Synonyms: Phrenetic

Synonyms: frantic (adj), frenetic (adj), frenzied (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Phrenetic

English words defined with "phrenetic": FrenetirPhrentic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Phrenetic

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Phrenetic

Expression using "phrenetic": frantic frenetic phrenetic frenzied. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Phrenetic

Language Translations for "phrenetic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i marrë (Batty, crack-brained, crazy, Daffy, delirious, demented, deranged, dippy, insane, mad, madman, wildcat, zany), i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, muddy, non compos, not all there, underwit, wild). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wanton, wild, zizzi), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), прекалено възторжен. (various references)

   

Czech

  

frenetický (frenetic, frenzied). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

اشفته (Berserk, Disheveled, Messy, Turbulent, Upset), شوریده (Berserk, Crazy, Distraught). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φρενοπαθήσ (moonstruck). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vad (barbarian, barbarous, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frenzied, game, gothic, rabid, ramage, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, robustic, rough and tumble, ruffianly, rumbustious, savage, tameless, truculent, wild). (various references)

   

Italian

  

forsennato (frenetic, lunatic, madman). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eneticphray

   

Portuguese

  

monomaníaco (monomaniac), louco (as far as, brain sick, bughouse, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, distress, fey, fool, foolish, frenetic, insane, locomotion, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, maniacal, nuts, nutshell, raving, wacky), frenético (berserk, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, partisan), exaltado (exalted, frenetic, high-level, high-up, hot tempered, hot-brained, hot-headed, impassive, partisan, rampant, up, volcanic), estilo linguístico. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

maniac (crank, cranky, fiend, maggot, maniac, maniacial), frenetic (frantic, frantically, frenzied, phrenetically, violent, wild), fanatic (devotee, fanatic, fanatical, fanatically, partisan, rabid, zealot). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фанатичный, фанатический (bigoted, fanatical), исступленный (ecstatic, frenetic, frenzied). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

frenetičan (frenetic). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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

   

Swedish

  

vild (coltish, delirious, ding-dong, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frenetic, haggard, headlong, madcap, rampant, riotous, savage, truculant, truculent, untamed, wild, wildcat), ursinnig (demoniacal, enraged, frenetic, furious, rabid), frenetisk (frantic, frenetic, frenzied). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, possessed, potty, touched), çılgın (berserk, bonkers, crackpot, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, demon, demoniac, desperado, distracted, foolhardy, frenetic, frenzied, insane, kook, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, moonstruck, nut, possessed, raving, rip roaring, ripsnorter, scatty, wild). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фанатичний (bigotted, enthusiastic, enthusiastical, fanatic, fanatical, frenetic, partisan, zelotic), несамовитий (amok, amuck, delirious, ecstatic, frantic, heartbreaking, heartrending, irresponsible, non compos, outrageous, passionate, violent), маніяк (maniac, monomaniac, push over), маніакальний (maniac, maniacal), безумець (madman). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cuồng lên, điên lên (blaze, frenetic), điên cuồng cuồng tín. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Phrenetic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-n-p-r-t"

-1 letter: encipher, herpetic, nephrite, phenetic, prentice, terpenic, trephine.

-2 letters: cithern, cithren, enteric, enticer, erethic, etheric, heretic, neither, nephric, percent, phrenic, pincher, pitcher, precent, prithee, receipt, techier, therein.

-3 letters: center, centre, ceriph, cerite, cipher, cither, cretin, either, enrich, entice, entire, etcher, ethnic, herein, hinter, incept, inhere, nether, pecten, pectin, piecer, pierce, pincer, prince, pterin, recent.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-n-p-r-t"
 

+2 letters: metanephric, parenthetic, pentarchies.

 

+3 letters: decipherment, encipherment, hyperkinetic, hypersthenic, picturephone, stepchildren, stereophonic.

 

+4 letters: decipherments, dryopithecine, encipherments, helicoptering, morphogenetic, nephelometric, nephrectomies, nephrectomize, parenthetical, picturephones, preanesthetic, precentorship, terpsichorean.

 

+5 letters: apprenticeship, asthenospheric, chemoreception, cyproheptadine, dryopithecines, hyperefficient, hyperenergetic, hyperexcretion, hypersecretion, magnetospheric, nephrectomized, nephrectomizes, nontherapeutic, photoreception, preanesthetics, precentorships, pyelonephritic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Phrenetic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 68 72 65 6E 65 74 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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