ADJ.
ahead, busy, lately, little, overwhelming, pretty, purple
VERB + HECTIC
bit, center, got, lead, leads, reply
HECTIC + NOUN
days, fever, life, manhattan, moment, night, week
PREP.
after, around, from, in
ADV.
sometimes
adj
Very busy with activity and confusion.
The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
Phoenix:It must have been too hectic that night to clean up.
Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.
hectic fever
Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.
Ann had a hectic cough, and many unfavourable prognostics […].
She never complained, but sleep and appetite fled from her, a slow fever preyed on her veins, her colour was hectic, and she often wept in secret […].
noun
A hectic fever.
[…] Do it England, / For like the Hecticke in my blood he rages, / And thou muſt cure me: […]
A flush like one produced by such a fever.
The poor Franciscan made no reply: a hectic of a moment pass’d across his cheek, but could not tarry […]
For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills […]
adjective — marked by intense agitation or emotion
The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
WiktionaryPhoenix:It must have been too hectic that night to clean up.
Wiktionaryhectic fever
Wiktionary[…] Do it England, / For like the Hecticke in my blood he rages, / And thou muſt cure me: […]
WiktionaryThe poor Franciscan made no reply: a hectic of a moment pass’d across his cheek, but could not tarry […]
WiktionaryFor still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills […]
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In some senses, hectic is marked as figuratively, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.