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. - TETRAGYNIA
A Linnæan order of plants having four styles. - 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. - 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. - 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 - MOORAGE
A place for mooring. - 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;