Frantic

frantic
    adj 1: excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other
           violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration";
           "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied
           look in his eye" [syn: {frantic}, {frenetic},
           {phrenetic}, {frenzied}]
    2: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of
       delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their
       gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: {delirious},
       {excited}, {frantic}, {mad}, {unrestrained}]
    

Frantic \Fran"tic\, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L.
   phreneticus, from Gr. ?. See {Frenzy}, and cf. {Frenetic},
   {Phrenetic}.]
   Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly;
   distracted.
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         Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! --Shak.
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         Torrents of frantic abuse.               --Macaulay.
   -- {Fran"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fran"tic*ly}, adv. --Shak. --
   {Fran"tic*ness}, n. --Johnson.
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110 Moby Thesaurus words for "frantic":
      Dionysiac, abandoned, agitated, amok, anarchic, angry,
      at fever pitch, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, blustering,
      blusterous, blustery, carried away, chaotic, confused, corybantic,
      delirious, demoniac, desperate, disconcerted, distracted, distrait,
      distraught, ecstatic, enraptured, excitable, excited, fanatical,
      febrile, feral, ferocious, feverish, fierce, frenetic, frenzied,
      fulminating, furious, haggard, hectic, hellish, hog-wild, howling,
      hyperactive, hyperkinetic, hysteric, hysterical, in a dither,
      in a tizzy, in a transport, in hysterics, infatuated, infuriate,
      insane, insensate, intoxicated, intrusive, like one possessed, mad,
      madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, mindless, nervous, officious,
      orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, overanxious, overdesirous,
      overeager, overenthusiastic, overwrought, overzealous, pandemoniac,
      perfervid, perturbed, possessed, rabid, raging, rambling, ramping,
      ranting, ravening, raving, raving mad, ravished, rip-roaring,
      roaring, running mad, running wild, stark-raving mad, storming,
      stormy, tempestuous, transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent,
      ultrazealous, uncontrollable, uproarious, upset, violent,
      wandering, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, wrought up