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[ US /ˈfɹæntɪk/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈɑːntɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
    a crowd of delirious baseball fans
    something frantic in their gaiety
    a mad whirl of pleasure
  2. excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
    frenetic screams followed the accident
    frantic with anger and frustration
    a frenzied look in his eye

How To Use frantic In A Sentence

  • But after three years of frantic knitting, they decided to end the challenge, despite reaching halfway.
  • He made frantic dash for the departing train.
  • In the final match, Lara scored yet another hundred but this was so frantic and frenzied that it could not stop the Australians from winning the match and squaring the series.
  • All I could do was frantically reach for my safety whistle and blow like crazy to alert the raft crew.
  • On return home, was remembering my brother's good suggestion that changing mouse mat might be the answer to the frantic behaviour of the cursor on my desktop machine; since I bought the desktop an emac, with optical mouse it has skipped around erratically at seemingly-random times. Wriggly thing in hair
  • Drummer Ste Barrow is frantically searching for a replacement having just split the skin on his bass drum.
  • The voice acting is deliberately hammy, the sound effects are loud and intrusive and the gameplay is frantic.
  • Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe! The Frontiersmen
  • I woke up to hear my parents gently bickering with one another, and my mother's frantic hoovering.
  • In our frantic effort to preserve the last vestiges of slavery and mediaevalism we not only set our faces against such improvements, but we seek to use education and the power of the state to train the servants who do not naturally appear. DARKWATER
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