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Frenetic   /frənˈɛtɪk/   Listen
Frenetic

adjective
1.
Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion.  Synonyms: frantic, frenzied, phrenetic.  "Frenetic screams followed the accident" , "A frenzied look in his eye"






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"Frenetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... worker fancies himself the handwriting on the wall. Unchallenged by the vote of the masses or by any outward evidence of mass dissent, the platitudes pile up, the nation is filled from morning to morning with stentorian clamor. Puritanism in a frenetic finale approaches ...
— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam

... noticed, are adapted to the stage from his novels. In Le Regiment de Champagne, at least, he has written a little melodramatically. But thanks to the battles, fumes of powder, muskets, and cannons upon the stage the descendants of Jean Chauvin accept it with frenetic applause. In most of the plays, however, he exhibits a rather nervous talent, rich imagination, and uses very scintillating and picturesque language, if he is inclined to do so—and he is very often ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet



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