Frantic
['fræntɪk]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
Editor: Nat--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.
Checker: Roberta
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Furious, raving, raging, mad, distracted, wild, infuriate, frenzied.
Editor: Margaret
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mad, raving, furious, distracted, wild, frenzied, maniacal
ANT:Sane, sober, calm, collected, cool, unruffled, composed
Typist: Randall
Definition
adj. mad furious: wild.—advs. Fran′tically Fran′ticly (Shak.).—adj. Fran′tic-mad raving mad.—n. Fran′ticness the state of being frantic.
Editor: Sharon
Examples
- At last he was happily got down without any accident, and then he began to beat Mr. Guppy with a hoop-stick in quite a frantic manner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the midst of my pain of heart and frantic effort of principle, I abhorred myself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The newspapers sent in frantic complaints, an investigation was made, and our little scheme was discovered. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Missis needn't smoke, said James with a frantic misplaced laugh, and thought the whole matter an excellent joke. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For the second time--with the frantic perversity of a roused woman--she caught me by the arm, and barred my way out. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- So frantic were their efforts to escape from the unseen thing behind me that one of the braves was hurled headlong from the cliff to the rocks below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In the course of a week, the civilian was her sworn slave and frantic admirer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer, are all nothing to you? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Frantic and impracticable girl! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The monarch was frantic at the loss of his son. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I have a vision of a dark, frantic face, of a woman's voice, which screamed in French, 'My waiting is not in vain. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Syrians are very poor, and yet they are ground down by a system of taxation that would drive any other nation frantic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If any listener had heard me, he would have thought me mad: I pronounced them with such frantic energy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Jane, you must be reasonable, or in truth I shall again become frantic. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I shook my fists at Jip, who was as frantic as myself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They were praying in frantic sort at the roadside. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the frantic hurry and agitation of the moment, it never struck me that I might let out the flame instead of letting in the air. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I was perfectly frantic,--a reckless witness under the torture,--and would have told them anything. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The administration as well as the General-in-chief was nearly frantic at the situation of affairs there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But Jos's fears, great and cruel as they were already, were destined to increase to an almost frantic pitch before the night was over. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was frantic folly to do so, Jane. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Frantic appeals were made to the people to come in voluntarily and swell the ranks of our foe. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The pain from the pricking of the skin by the needles is exasperating; but when the explosions of the cartridges commence the animal becomes frantic. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was no frantic crowding and jostling, no shouting and swearing, and no swaggering intrusion of services by rowdy hackmen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Powers of Europe began by a frantic claiming of the new realms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her frantic joy at beholding me again moved me much. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You have no cause, answered Bois-Guilbert, gravely; my former frantic attempts you have not now to dread. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Yielding to frantic requests, President Grant, who returned to Washington, caused Secretary Boutwell, of the Treasury, to throw $4,000,000 of gold into the market. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then the story of his frantic and cruel display of grief for Heph?stion can scarcely be all invention. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My poor mother was half frantic. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
Editor: Sharon