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In some senses, frantic is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
VERBS
be, seem | become, get, go
drive sb
My noisy neighbors were driving me frantic with their loud music every night.
ADV
really
absolutely, quite
She became absolutely frantic when she couldn't find her passport before the flight.
increasingly | almost
PREP
with
The office became frantic with activity as the deadline approached.
adj
Insane, mentally unstable.
Master have mercy on my sonne, for he is franticke: and ys sore vexed.
If with myself I hold intelligence, Or have acquaintance with mine own desires; If that I do not dream, or be not frantic— As I do trust I am not—then, dear uncle, Never so much as in a thought unborn Did I offend your Highness.
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.
Sir George bore the annoyances of the night as a very vain man does totally unaccustomed to mortification. He was frantic with passion; he longed to kill somebody, but he did not know who.
Extremely energetic.
frantic music
At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
noun
A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.
1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5, How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?
[…] who but senseless Franticks would have thoughts so poor? My Reason forsakes the government of this weak Frame, and I am fall’n into disorder […]
adjective — excessively agitated
adjective — marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
Master have mercy on my sonne, for he is franticke: and ys sore vexed.
WiktionaryIf with myself I hold intelligence, Or have acquaintance with mine own desires; If that I do not dream, or be not frantic— As I do trust I am not—then, dear uncle, Never so much as in a thought unborn
WiktionaryThey returned the missing child to his frantic mother.
Wiktionary1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5, How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?
Wiktionary[…] who but senseless Franticks would have thoughts so poor? My Reason forsakes the government of this weak Frame, and I am fall’n into disorder […]
Wiktionary1721, Cotton Mather, diary entry for 16 July, 1721 in Diary of Cotton Mather, 1709-1724, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, Seventh Series, Volume VIII, Boston: 1912, p. 632, The Destroyer,
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In some senses, frantic is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.