frantic

== English == === Alternative forms === frantick (obsolete) phrantic (archaic) phrantick (obsolete) === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɹæn.tɪk/ Rhymes: -æntɪk === Adjective === frantic (comparative more frantic, superlative most frantic) (archaic) Insane, mentally unstable. In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush. Extremely energetic. ==== Synonyms ==== frenetic, frenzied ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== frenetic frenzy phrenitis phrenology schizophrenia ==== Translations ==== === Noun === frantic (plural frantics) (archaic) A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman. 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5,[2] 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,[4] 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, […] === References === === Further reading === “frantic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “frantic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “frantic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === infarct, infract