...the frenetic pace of life in New York...
This frenetic activity is the sign of a worried man.
Steve and I worked frenetically to ensure that everything would go smoothly.
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frenetic — FRENÉTIC, Ă, frenetici, ce, adj. Care se află în stare de frenezie, care exprimă o asemenea stare. ♦ (Şi adv.) Puternic; pasionat. – Din fr. frénétique. Trimis de zaraza joe, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98 frenétic adj. m., pl. frenétici; f … Dicționar Român
Frenetic — Fre*net ic, a. [See {Frantic}, a.] Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic. Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
frenetic — I adjective berserk, crazed, crazy, deranged, excited, feverish, frantic, frenzied, furens, furibund, hysterical, insanus, maniacal, overwrought, perturbed, possessed, raving, restless, unsettled, vesanus, worked up, wrought up II index … Law dictionary
frenetic — late 14c., from O.Fr. frenetike, from L. phreneticus delirious, alteration of Gk. phrenitikos, from phrenitis frenzy, lit. inflammation of the brain, from phren mind, reason (from PIE *gwhren to think ) + ITIS (Cf. itis). The classical ph … Etymology dictionary
frenetic — adj *furious, frantic, frenzied, wild, delirious, rabid Analogous words: demented, *insane, mad: *irrational, unreasonable: provoked, excited, stimulated (see PROVOKE) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
frenetic — [adj] maniacal corybantic, delirious, demented, distraught, excited, fanatical, frantic, frenzied, furibund, furious, hyper*, in a lather*, insane, lost it*, mad, obsessive, overwrought, phrenetic, rabid, unbalanced, unscrewed*, weirded out*,… … New thesaurus
frenetic — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way. DERIVATIVES frenetically adverb freneticism noun. ORIGIN Old French frenetique violently mad , from Greek phrenitis delirium … English terms dictionary
frenetic — [frə net′ik] adj. [see PHRENETIC] frantic; frenzied: also frenetical frenetically adv … English World dictionary
frenetic — fre|net|ic [frıˈnetık] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: frénétique, from Latin phreneticus, from Greek phren mind ] frenetic activity is fast and not very organized = ↑frantic ▪ She rushes from job to job at a frenetic pace … Dictionary of contemporary English
frenetic — adjective frenetic actions are very fast, uncontrolled and excited: a frenetic departure … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
