frantic

The definition of frantic is being overcome or wild with emotion or need for action or something done with desperation or in a hurried manner.

(adjective)

An example of frantic is a mother who has just misplaced her child.
An example of frantic is a desperate attempt to find your keys when you are already late.

See frantic in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

Origin: ME frantik, frenetik: see phrenetic

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See frantic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration; frenzied: frantic with worry.
Characterized by rapid and disordered or nervous activity: made a frantic last-minute search for the lost key.
Archaic Mad; insane.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English frantik

Origin: , from Old French frenetique

Origin: , from Latin phrenēticus; see frenetic

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