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Definition of Frantic

1. Adjective. Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion. "A frenzied look in his eye"

2. Adjective. Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion. "A mad whirl of pleasure"

Definition of Frantic

1. a. Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.

Definition of Frantic

1. wildly excited [adj]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Frantic

frank breech frank breech delivery Frank Capra Frank Cooper Frank Harris Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Morrison Spillane Frank Norris Frank Philip Stella Frank Sinatra

Frank Stella Frank Stockton Frank Winfield Woolworth franseria franserias frantic (current term) frantically franticly franticness franticnesses

Frantzel's murmur franzier franziest franzy Franz Anton Mesmer Franz Ferdinand Franz Josef I Franz Joseph Franz Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Kline

Literary usage of Frantic

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1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The tale is that one Frankum offered sacrifice in his orchard for an extra fine crop, but a blight ensued, and his trees were unproductive. frantic. ..."

2. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry by Thomas Percy (1887)
"... On a mossey carpet lay me, Fan me with ambrosial breeze, Let me die, and so have ease I XXII.—THE frantic LADY. MAD SONG THE SIXTH. THIS, like No. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"... you drive me frantic, charackter and her life. I don't add no " He has done nothing, my dear, to eave the poor young lady out of his that I know of. ..."

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