adj
Meaning 1
Insane, mentally unstable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
frantic
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈfɹæn.tɪk/
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rhymes with -æntɪk
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CMU ARPABET: F R AE1 N T IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tearing
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Extremely energetic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- frantic music
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- 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?
- 1721, 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, being enraged at the Proposal of any Thing, that may rescue the Lives of our poor People from him, has taken a strange Possession of the People on this Occasion. They rave, they rail, they blaspheme; they talk not only like Ideots but also like Franticks, [...]
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- frantic with anger and frustration
- frenetic screams followed the accident
- a frenzied look in his eye
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a crowd of delirious baseball fans
- something frantic in their gaiety
- a mad whirl of pleasure
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: delirious, excited, mad, unrestrained
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English frantike, frentik, variant of frenetik, from Old French frenetique, from Late Latin phreneticus, alteration of phreniticus, from φρενιτικός (phrenitikós, “mad, suffering from inflammation of the brain”), from φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”), from φρήν (phrḗn, “the brain”). Doublet of frenetic and phrenitic.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: неистов (neistov) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Bulgarian: обезумял (obezumjal) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Chinese Mandarin: 慌亂不安的 /慌乱不安的 (huāngluàn bù'ān de) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Chinese Mandarin: 瘋狂 /疯狂 (fēngkuáng) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Chinese Mandarin: 狂暴 (kuángbào) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Chinese Mandarin: 喪心病狂的 /丧心病狂的 (sàngxīnbìngkuáng de) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Czech: frenetický — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Czech: zběsilý — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Czech: horečnatý — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Czech: horečný — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Czech: překotný — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Czech: bez sebe — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Czech: šílený — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Danish: hektisk — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Danish: febrilsk — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Danish: ude af sig selv — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Danish: rasende — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Dutch: panisch — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Esperanto: freneza — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Finnish: vimmattu — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Finnish: raivoisa — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Finnish: hurja — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Finnish: vauhko — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Finnish: riehakas — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Finnish: epätoivoinen — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- French: éperdu — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- French: paniqué — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- French: frénétique — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- German: außer sich — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- German: rasend — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Italian: frenetico — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Italian: esagitato — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Japanese: 気違いじみた (kichigai-jimita) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Latin: furiālis — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Māori: maurirere — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Māori: hopī — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Māori: tūmekemeke — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Norman: êpèrdu — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Norwegian Bokmål: febrilsk — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Norwegian Nynorsk: febrilsk — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Portuguese: frenético — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Russian: неи́стовый (neístovyj) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Russian: бе́шеный (béšenyj) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Russian: вне себя́ (vne sebjá) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Spanish: frenético — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Spanish: desesperado — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Swedish: hektisk — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Swedish: frenetisk — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Turkish: çılgına dönmüş — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Turkish: hummalı — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Ukrainian: несамовитий (nesamovytyj) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush
- Ukrainian: шалений (šalenyj) — In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush