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frenetic — FRENÉTIC, Ă, frenetici, ce, adj. Care se află în stare de frenezie, care exprimă o asemenea stare. ♦ (Şi adv.) Puternic; pasionat. – Din fr. frénétique. Trimis de zaraza joe, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98 frenétic adj. m., pl. frenétici; f … Dicționar Român
Frenetic — Fre*net ic, a. [See {Frantic}, a.] Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic. Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
frenetic — I adjective berserk, crazed, crazy, deranged, excited, feverish, frantic, frenzied, furens, furibund, hysterical, insanus, maniacal, overwrought, perturbed, possessed, raving, restless, unsettled, vesanus, worked up, wrought up II index … Law dictionary
frenetic — late 14c., from O.Fr. frenetike, from L. phreneticus delirious, alteration of Gk. phrenitikos, from phrenitis frenzy, lit. inflammation of the brain, from phren mind, reason (from PIE *gwhren to think ) + ITIS (Cf. itis). The classical ph … Etymology dictionary
frenetic — adj *furious, frantic, frenzied, wild, delirious, rabid Analogous words: demented, *insane, mad: *irrational, unreasonable: provoked, excited, stimulated (see PROVOKE) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
frenetic — [adj] maniacal corybantic, delirious, demented, distraught, excited, fanatical, frantic, frenzied, furibund, furious, hyper*, in a lather*, insane, lost it*, mad, obsessive, overwrought, phrenetic, rabid, unbalanced, unscrewed*, weirded out*,… … New thesaurus
frenetic — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way. DERIVATIVES frenetically adverb freneticism noun. ORIGIN Old French frenetique violently mad , from Greek phrenitis delirium … English terms dictionary
frenetic — [frə net′ik] adj. [see PHRENETIC] frantic; frenzied: also frenetical frenetically adv … English World dictionary
frenetic — [[t]frɪne̱tɪk[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe an activity as frenetic, you mean that it is fast and energetic, but rather uncontrolled. ...the frenetic pace of life in New York... This frenetic activity is the sign of a worried man. Syn: frantic… … English dictionary
frenetic — fre|net|ic [frıˈnetık] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: frénétique, from Latin phreneticus, from Greek phren mind ] frenetic activity is fast and not very organized = ↑frantic ▪ She rushes from job to job at a frenetic pace … Dictionary of contemporary English
frenetic — adjective frenetic actions are very fast, uncontrolled and excited: a frenetic departure … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
