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Antonyms for frenetic

Grammar : Adj
Spell : fruh-net-ik
Phonetic Transcription : frəˈnɛt ɪk

Definition of frenetic

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French frenetike, from Latin phreneticus "delirious," alteration of Greek phrenitikos, from phrenitis "frenzy," literally "inflammation of the brain," from phren "mind, reason" (from PIE *gwhren- "to think") + -itis. The classical ph- was restored mid-16c. Related: Frenetically.
  • adj maniacal
Example sentences :
  • “Frenetic to be free,” like the pennon, is in this sense the concentration of its meaning.
  • Extract from : « The Browning Cyclopdia » by Edward Berdoe
  • It is here worth noticing that Siena, the city of civil discord, was also the city of frenetic piety.
  • Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) » by John Addington Symonds
  • Everywhere was joy, gain, revelry; everywhere certainty of the morrow's bread; everywhere the frenetic outbursts of vitality.
  • Extract from : « Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry » by Charles Baudelaire
  • He had the unwholesome, frenetic aspect of the patent medicine enthusiast, not uncommon in the North.
  • Extract from : « Two on the Trail » by Hulbert Footner
  • A cripple without legs having succeeded in seizing a drachma, the applause was frenetic.
  • Extract from : « Thais » by Anatole France
  • And the toy flag there floated where he raised it aloft, "frenetic," as Browning says, "to be free."
  • Extract from : « The Camp-life of the Third Regiment » by Robert T. Kerlin
  • His coal-black eyes suddenly flashed with fanatic, frenetic light.
  • Extract from : « The Door into Infinity » by Edmond Hamilton
  • There was in him the frenetic unconscious desire to rid himself of the thing he had come to believe inferior.
  • Extract from : « Musical Portraits » by Paul Rosenfeld
  • There is no hacienda nostalgia in Mexico—only frenetic pressure for industrialization and overall capitalism.
  • Extract from : « The Haciendas of Mexico » by Paul Alexander Bartlett
  • He lit the cigarette, took a puff that made the smoke do a frenetic dance around his nostrils.
  • Extract from : « The Very Black » by Dean Evans

Synonyms for frenetic

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