Sekirov Dictionary

frantic

/ˈfɹæn.tɪk/

adjective 3
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

•
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
- They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.
•
Extremely energetic.
- 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. — 2011
•
(no longer used) Insane, mentally unstable.
- Master have mercy on my sonne, for he is franticke: and ys sore vexed. — 1526

noun1

•
(no longer used) A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.
- How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes? — 1595

forms

frantics · more frantic · most frantic

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