frantic
/ˈfɹæn.tɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.33 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
Example Sentences
- "Master have mercy on my sonne, for he is franticke: and ys sore vexed."
- "If with myself I hold intelligence, Or have acquaintance with mine own desires; If that I do not dream, or be not frantic— As I do trust I am not—then, dear uncle, Never so much as in a thought unborn Did I offend your Highness."
- "They returned the missing child to his frantic mother."
- "Sir George bore the annoyances of the night as a very vain man does totally unaccustomed to mortification. He was frantic with passion; he longed to kill somebody, but he did not know who."
- "frantic music"
- "At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: frantike, frenetique, phreneticus
Usage
Inflected Forms
more frantic (comparative)
most frantic (superlative)
frantick (alternative, obsolete)
phrantic (alternative, archaic)
phrantick (alternative, obsolete)
frantics (plural)