frantic
adjective · nounB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(archaic)Insane, mentally unstable.
- 2.
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.
Đồng nghĩa: tearing
- 3.
Extremely energetic.
frantic music
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(archaic)A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.
1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5, How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?
1721, Cotton Mather, diary entry for 16 July, 1721 in Diary of Cotton Mather, 1709-1724, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, Seventh Series, Volume VIII, Boston: 1912, p. 632, The Destroyer, being enraged at the Proposal of any Thing, that may rescue the Lives of our poor People from him, has taken a strange Possession of the People on this Occasion. They rave, they rail, they blaspheme; they talk not only like Ideots but also like Franticks, […]
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From Middle English frantike, frentik, variant of frenetik, from Old French frenetique, from phreneticus, alteration of phreniticus, from φρενιτικός (mad, suffering from inflammation of the brain), from φρενῖτις (inflammation of the brain), from φρήν (the brain). frenetic phrenitic.