Word Meanings - FRANTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. Macaulay. -- Fran"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Fran"tic*ly, adv. Shak. -- Fran"tic*ness, n. Johnson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRANTIC)

• Desperate
• Wild
• daring
• audacious
• determined
• reckless
• abandoned
• rash
• furious
• frantic
• despairing
• regardless
• mad
• desponding
• hapless
• inextricable
• irremediable
• Mad
• Insane
• demented
• lunatic
• infuriated
• crazy
• maniacal
• rabid
• wild
• distracted
• Rabid
• Furious
• raging
• raving
• Raving
• Delirious
• violent

Related words: (words related to FRANTIC)

• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• RAVENER
  1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland.
• RAGE
  1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• RAVELIN
  A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
• HAPLESS
  Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• RAGLAN
  A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• RAVEN
  A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus,
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• RAGAMUFFIN
  The long-tailed titmouse. (more info) 1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden. 2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
• DESPAIRING
  Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• RAVENING
  Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39.
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• RABIDLY
  In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.
• DEMENTED
  Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• TETRAGYNIA
  A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
• GRAVIDATION
  Gravidity.
• PHRAGMOCONE
  The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
• MORAVIAN
  Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• MOORAGE
  A place for mooring.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
  The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;