frantic

CET-6 大学 FREQ #15174 ★★☆☆☆

a. 狂乱的, 疯狂的

发音

US /ˈfɹæn.tɪk/

词形变化

frantics 复数 frantics more frantic 比较级 most frantic 最高级

别名

frantick phrantic phrantick

教材释义与例句

形容词

狂乱的，疯狂的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.

    古体

    1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5, How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?

    1721, Cotton Mather, diary entry for 16 July, 1721 in Diary of Cotton Mather, 1709-1724, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, Seventh Series, Volume VIII, Boston: 1912, p. 632, The Destroyer, being enraged at the Proposal of any Thing, that may rescue the Lives of our poor People from him, has taken a strange Possession of the People on this Occasion. They rave, they rail, they blaspheme; they talk not only like Ideots but also like Franticks, […]

adj.
  1. 1.

    Insane, mentally unstable.

    古体
  2. 2.

    In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.

    慌乱不安的

    疯狂

    狂暴

    丧心病狂的

    They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.

  3. 3.

    Extremely energetic.

    frantic music

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 7

mad excited delirious frenzied unrestrained frenetic phrenetic

近义相关 2

wild agitated

词源

From Middle English frantike, frentik, variant of frenetik, from Old French frenetique, from Late Latin phreneticus, alteration of phreniticus, from φρενιτικός (phrenitikós, “mad, suffering from inflammation of the brain”), from φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”), from φρήν (phrḗn, “the brain”). Doublet of frenetic and phrenitic.

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