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The definition of frenetic is frantic or in a frenzy.

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An example of a frenetic person is someone running around trying to do 10 things at once.

See frenetic in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

frantic; frenzied

also frenetical

Origin: see phrenetic

Related Forms:

frenetically adverb

See frenetic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

or phre·net·ic

adjective

Wildly excited or active; frantic; frenzied.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English frenetik

Origin: , from Old French frenetique

Origin: , from Latin phrenēticus

Origin: , from Greek phrenītikos

Origin: , from phrenītis, brain disease

Origin: , from phrēn, mind; see g^whren- in Indo-European roots

Related Forms:

fre·netˈi·cal·ly adverb

fre·netˈi·cism (-ĭ-sĭzˌəm) noun

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