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Meaning of Frantic | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈfɹæntɪk

Definitions

A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.

archaic

Equivalents

العربية مسعور
Български неистов
Esperanto freneza
Français éperdu frantic frénétique panique
Italiano esagitato frenetico
日本語 気違いじみた
한국어 요요하다
Latina furialis
Te Reo Māori hopi
Nederlands panisch
Português frenético
Svenska hektisk
Türkçe hummalı

Examples

“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?”
“[…] who but senseless Franticks would have thoughts so poor? My Reason forsakes the government of this weak Frame, and I am fall’n into disorder […]”
“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, […]”

CEFR level

C2
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