frenzied
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion: Describes a state of wild, uncontrolled, and often frantic excitement or agitation.
- Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason: Describes behavior or actions that are wildly irrational, violent, or energetic, driven by intense emotion.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The crowd became frenzied when the band took the stage.
- She worked with frenzied haste to meet the deadline.
- His frenzied shouting could be heard from the street.
Advanced Usage
- "in a frenzied state": behaving in a wildly excited or irrational manner.
- The investors were in a frenzied state as the stock price plummeted.
- "frenzied activity": a period of intense, chaotic, and hurried action.
- The news sparked a frenzied activity of phone calls and emails.
Variants and Related Words
- Frenzy (n): A state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior.
- The announcement sent the market into a frenzy.
- Frenziedly (adv): In a frenzied manner.
- He searched frenziedly for the lost keys.
Synonyms
- Frantic: Desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, or pain.
- Manic: Showing wild, apparently deranged, excitement and energy.
- Hectic: Full of incessant or frantic activity.
- Rabid: Having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something; can also imply violent intensity.
Antonyms
- Calm: Not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions.
- Composed: Having one's feelings and expression under control; calm.
- Placid: Not easily upset or excited.
Related Phrases
- Work oneself into a frenzy: To become extremely agitated or excited.
- He worked himself into a frenzy worrying about the exam results.
- A frenzy of: A sudden burst of intense activity or feeling.
- The last week was a frenzy of preparations for the wedding.
Adjective
- excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
- frantic with anger and frustration
- frenetic screams followed the accident
- a frenzied look in his eye
- affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason
- a frenzied attack
- a frenzied mob
- the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused- H.W.Carter
- outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity