frantic
IPA: frˈæntɪk
noun
- (archaic) A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.
adjective
- (archaic) Insane, mentally unstable.
- In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
- Extremely energetic.
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Examples of "frantic" in Sentences
- The audience was frantic with joy.
- The former is slower and the latter frantic.
- The mother and father are frantic and afraid.
- The era of frantic scientific research begins.
- The pace is frantic, tempestuous and adventurous.
- The frantic sandbagging saved the city's water plant.
- The performance is interrupted by the frantic Bridget.
- The song is like a frantic version of that of Skylark.
- Alpha taster shouts [in frantic Shatner-esque desperation]:
- The weather was perfect, sunny and dry, for the frantic quest.
- They were in a frantic rally in the bottom of the ninth inning.
- Learn more about the word "frantic" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary.com dictionary.
- Holly figured it was Mia who else would? and there she was, her expression frantic, shivering in the morning chill in just a thin light blue hoodie and jeans.
- The word frantic has appeared in 354 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Nov. 14 in "For a Homeless Child, a Long Ride to 4th Grade" by Emily Canal:
- But things look different inside India, where technology companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars in frantic attempts to ensure that their profit-making machine keeps producing.
- On either side of the steamer, rows of scows received the flying cargo, and on each of these scows a sweating mob of men charged the descending slings and heaved bales and boxes about in frantic search.
- There would be a fleeting glimpse of the three men flinging water in frantic haste, when she would topple over and fall into the yawning valley, bow down and showing her full inside length to the stern upreared almost directly above the bow.
- After 18 months of sparring between the Tories and BBC executives over the level of the licence fee, the future funding of the corporation has been hammered out in frantic negotiations in little over three days, with the broadcaster coming off decidedly second best.
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