frenetic

• phrenetic (dated)
• phrenetick (obsolete)
• phrentic, phrentick (obsolete)

From Middle English frenetik (also frentik, frentyk, frantike > modern English frantic), from Old French frenetike, from Latin phreneticus, from Ancient Greek φρενητικός (phrenētikós, “delirious”), from φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “delirium”), from φρήν (phrḗn, “mind”). Doublet of frantic.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /fɹəˈnɛt.ɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɪk

frenetic (comparative more frenetic, superlative most frenetic)

1. Fast, harried; having extreme enthusiasm or energy.

   After a week of working at a frenetic pace, she was ready for Saturday.

2. (obsolete) Mentally deranged, insane.
3. (obsolete, medicine) Characterised by manifestations of delirium or madness.

• frantic, frenzied

• frantic
• frenzy
• schizophrenia

frenetic (plural frenetics)

1. One who is frenetic.

• frenetic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• frenetic at OneLook Dictionary Search

• infecter, reinfect

From French frénétique.

frenetic m or n (feminine singular frenetică, masculine plural frenetici, feminine and neuter plural frenetice)

1. frenetic