frantic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman. archaic
    — 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?
形容词 adj.
  1. Insane, mentally unstable. archaic
    — Master have mercy on my sonne, for he is franticke: and ys sore vexed.
  2. In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
    — They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.
  3. Extremely energetic.
    — frantic music

词形变化

more frantic comparative most frantic superlative frantick alternative,obsolete phrantic alternative,archaic phrantick alternative,obsolete frantics plural frantick alternative,obsolete phrantic alternative,archaic phrantick alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
frenetic frenzied
衍生词
frantically franticity franticly franticness semifrantic
相关词
frenetic frenzy phrenitis phrenology schizophrenia

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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