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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
Example:
a frenzied look in his eye
Synonyms:
frantic; frenetic; frenzied; phrenetic
Classified under:
Similar:
agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
Example:
a mad whirl of pleasure
Synonyms:
delirious; excited; frantic; mad; unrestrained
Classified under:
Similar:
wild (marked by extreme lack of restraint or control)
Context examples:
As I turned I caught a glimpse of a convulsed face and frantic eyes.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had been suffocating in that atmosphere, while the apprentice's chatter had driven him frantic.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"To hear is to obey, but March is fairer far than May," said little Parker, making a frantic effort to be both witty and tender, and getting promptly quenched by Laurie, who said...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, while she held a candle in her right.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There would be a fleeting glimpse of the three men flinging water in frantic haste, when she would topple over and fall into the yawning valley, bow down and showing her full inside length to the stern upreared almost directly above the bow.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Laughter had affected him with madness, made him frantic with rage.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer, are all nothing to you?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Her expression became frantic as she spoke; and, he yielding to her, she pulled him down sitting on the bed side, and clung to him fiercely.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Their case was a hard one, for the folk in front refused to yield an inch of their places—but the arguments from the rear prevailed over everything else, and presently every frantic fugitive had been absorbed, whilst the beaters-out took their stands along the edge at regular intervals, with their whips held down by their thighs.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
