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Also fre·net·i·cal, phrenetic, phrenetical. Origin of freneticFirst recorded in 1350–1400; see origin at frantic OTHER WORDS FROM freneticfre·net·i·cal·ly, adverbnon·fre·net·ic, adjectivenon·fre·net·i·cal·ly, adverbWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH freneticfanatic, frantic, frenetic Words nearby freneticFrenchy, Freneau, frenectomy, frenemy, Frenet formula, frenetic, Frenkel defect, frenoplasty, frenotomy, frenulum, frenulum of clitoris Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for freneticLaimbeer said he didn’t change much tactically, and the Aces didn’t even play at their typical frenetic pace. The Seattle Storm Have Been Here Before. Can The Las Vegas Aces Break Through?|Howard Megdal|October 2, 2020|FiveThirtyEight During the day, these hummingbirds’ tiny-yet-mighty hearts can beat 1,200 times a minute to power their frenetic lifestyle. This hummingbird survives cold nights by nearly freezing itself solid|Jonathan Lambert|September 8, 2020|Science News The whole scene looks like a frenetic burlesque show-themed bachelorette party. And the Wiener Is…My Trip to Brooklyn’s Smallest Penis Pageant|Tessa Miller|June 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST The meeting will cap a frenetic fundraising season for the conservative donor network. Koch Brothers Unveil New Strategy at Big Donor Retreat|Peter Stone|June 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With alternating chapters, the novel takes us on a frenetic journey through the perspectives of these unlikely apocalyptos. In a New Novel, Apathetic Teenagers Usher in the Apocalypse|Elliot Ackerman|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST To preserve the frenetic flavor of the scene, I have left in the interview a few of these interruptions. Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview|Alex Belth|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST I don't quite understand how a city can be so sedate and frenetic at the same time, but somehow Los Angeles manages it. On the Road, Old Bean: Two Brits Adventures in America|Jessica Ferri|December 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST There is no hacienda nostalgia in Mexico—only frenetic pressure for industrialization and overall capitalism. The Haciendas of Mexico|Paul Alexander Bartlett And the toy flag there floated where he raised it aloft, "frenetic," as Browning says, "to be free." The Camp-life of the Third Regiment|Robert T. Kerlin It is here worth noticing that Siena, the city of civil discord, was also the city of frenetic piety. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7)|John Addington Symonds He lit the cigarette, took a puff that made the smoke do a frenetic dance around his nostrils. The Very Black|Dean Evans There was in him the frenetic unconscious desire to rid himself of the thing he had come to believe inferior. Musical Portraits|Paul Rosenfeld
British Dictionary definitions for frenetic
adjectivedistracted or frantic; frenzied Derived forms of freneticfrenetically, adverbfreneticness, nounWord Origin for freneticC14: via Old French frenetique from Latin phrenēticus, from Greek phrenētikos, from phrenitis insanity, from phrēn mind Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to freneticfurious, frantic, frenzied, obsessive, delirious, demented, distraught, excited, fanatical, insane, mad, overwrought, rabid, unbalanced, wild, wired, corybantic, hyper, in a lather, phrenetic |