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Frenetic   /frənˈɛtɪk/   Listen
Frenetic

adjective
1.
Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion.  Synonyms: frantic, frenzied, phrenetic.  "Frenetic screams followed the accident" , "A frenzied look in his eye"






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"Frenetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the pomp which colour and splendid composition can convey, is Titian's sole care; whereas Correggio appears to have been satisfied with realising the tumult of heaven rushing to meet earth, and earth straining upwards to ascend to heaven in violent commotion—a very orgasm of frenetic rapture. The essence of the event is forgotten: its external manifestation alone is presented to the eye; and only the accessories of beardless angels and cloud-encumbered cherubs are really beautiful amid a surge of limbs in restless movement. More dignified, because ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds

... letter to the Secretary of State, that there was hardly a parish of any considerable extent in which there might not be found some unfortunate human creature, who, if his ill-treatment had made him "frenetic," was chained in the cellar or garret of a workhouse, fastened to the leg of a table, tied to a post in an outhouse, or perhaps shut up in an uninhabited ruin; or, if his lunacy were inoffensive, was left to ramble, half-naked and half-starved, through the streets and highways, ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... my diary when I complacently styled myself a waster in Earth's factory. Oh, that diary! Let me here solemnly retract and abjure every crude and idiot opinion and reflection of life set forth in that frenetic record! I regard myself not as a waster—I remember a passage in Epictetus treating ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke



Words linked to "Frenetic" :   frantic, frenzied, agitated



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