Crossword Dictionary
frenetic
frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied - a
excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye"
synonyms
delirious, ferocious, feverish, fierce, frantic, frenzied, furious, mad, rabid, violent, wild
in a sentence
Dillon and Deanne laughed and boogied frenetically for a moment, and then began to waltz as the speed was adjusted
the freneticism of the urban milieu of the late fifties and early sixties …
The celebration was noisy and frenetic.
the frenetic rush to get every member of the cast in place before the curtain went up
etymology
late 14c., frenetik, "temporarily deranged, delirious, crazed," from Old French frenetike "mad, crazy" (13c.), from Latin phreneticus"delirious," alteration of Greek phrenitikos, from phrenitis (nosos) "frenzy, mental disease, insanity," literally "inflammation of the brain," from phrēn "mind, reason," also "diaphragm" (see phreno-) + -itis "inflammation." The classical ph- sometimes was restored from mid-16c. (see phrenetic). Related: Frenetical; frenetically. Compare frantic.