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frantic
adjective
1 frantic
Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion:
— Frantic with anger and frustration.
synonyms: frenetic, frenzied, phrenetic.
Roget 503:
insane,
mad,
lunatic,
loony [Coll.];
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;
shatterpated†;
mad-brained,
scatter brained,
shatter brained,
crackbrained;
touched,
tetched [Coll.];
off one's head.
[behavior suggesting insanity]
maniacal;
delirious,
lightheaded,
incoherent,
rambling,
doting,
wandering;
frantic,
raving,
stark staring mad,
stark raving mad,
wild-eyed,
berserk;
delusional,
hallucinatory.
[behavior somewhat resembling insanity]
corybantic†,
dithyrambic;
rabid,
giddy,
vertiginous,
wild;
haggard,
mazed;
flighty;
distracted,
distraught;
depressed;
agitated,
hyped up;
bewildered
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
mad as a March hare,
mad as a hatter;
of unsound mind
etc.
n.;
touched in one's head,
wrong in one's head,
not right in one's head,
not in one's right mind,
not right in one's wits,
upper story;
out of one's mind,
out of one's wits,
out of one's skull [Coll.],
far gone,
out of one's senses,
out of one's wits;
not in one's right mind.
fanatical,
infatuated,
odd,
eccentric;
hypped†,
hyppish†;
spaced out [Coll.].
imbecile,
silly,
etc.
499.
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Roget 173:
violent,
vehement;
warm;
acute,
sharp;
rough,
rude,
ungentle,
bluff,
boisterous,
wild;
brusque,
abrupt,
waspish;
impetuous;
rampant.
turbulent;
disorderly;
blustering,
raging
etc.
v.;
troublous†,
riotous;
tumultuary†,
tumultuous;
obstreperous,
uproarious;
extravagant;
unmitigated;
ravening,
inextinguishable,
tameless;
frenzied
etc.
(insane)
503.
desperate
etc.
(rash)
863;
infuriate,
furious,
outrageous,
frantic,
hysteric,
in hysterics.
fiery,
flaming,
scorching,
hot,
red-hot,
ebullient.
savage,
fierce,
ferocious,
fierce as a tiger.
excited
etc.
v.;
unquelled†,
unquenched,
unextinguished†,
unrepressed,
unbridled,
unruly;
headstrong,
ungovernable,
unappeasable,
immitigable,
unmitigable†;
uncontrollable,
incontrollable†;
insuppressible,
irrepressible;
orgastic,
orgasmatic,
orgasmic.
spasmodic,
convulsive,
explosive;
detonating
etc.
v.;
volcanic,
meteoric;
stormy
etc.
(wind)
349.
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2 frantic
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion:
— Something frantic in their gaiety.
synonyms: delirious, excited, mad, unrestrained.
Roget 824:
excited
etc.
v.;
wrought up,
up the qui vive [Fr.],
astir,
sparkling;
in a quiver
etc.
821,
in a fever,
in a ferment,
in a blaze,
in a state of excitement;
in hysterics;
black in the face,
overwrought,
tense,
taught,
on a razor's edge;
hot,
red-hot,
flushed,
feverish;
all of a twitter,
in a pucker;
with quivering lips,
with tears in one's eyes.
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.
lost,
eperdu [Fr.],
tempest-tossed;
haggard;
ready to sink.
stung to the quick,
up,
on one's high ropes.
exciting,
absorbing,
riveting,
distracting
etc.
v.;
impressive,
warm,
glowing,
fervid,
swelling,
imposing,
spirit-stirring,
thrilling;
high-wrought;
soul-stirring,
soul-subduing;
heart-stirring,
heart-swelling,
heart-thrilling;
agonizing
etc.
(painful)
830;
telling,
sensational,
hysterical;
overpowering,
overwhelming;
more than flesh and blood can bear;
yellow.
piquant
etc.
(pungent)
392;
spicy,
appetizing,
provocative,
provoquant†,
tantalizing.
eager to go,
anxious to go,
chafing at the bit.
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