Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: frantic
IPA transcription: [fɹ'æntɪk]
Pronunciations of frantic
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained
    Meaning: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
Usage examples
  • She prepared for bed with frantic haste.
  • So he made a frantic effort to loosen himself.
  • All Jasper's frantic efforts at comfort, utterly failed.
  • I gave a wild yell and made one frantic struggle, but it was too late.
  • He might have killed him yesterday on account of Grushenka, like the frantic, savage fool he is, but he won't steal."
  • A blinding light, a frantic oscillation of the Atom Smasher, a sense of death, awful and indescribable--and stark unconsciousness rushed over Jim.
  • Two voices were uttering piercing shrieks, one after another, so loud and frantic that even the servants in the back part of the house came running.
  • So frantic were their efforts to escape from the unseen thing behind me that one of the braves was hurled headlong from the cliff to the rocks below.
  • He left a hollow limb on the old red pearmain apple-tree, because when he came to cut it there was a pair of bluebirds twittering around, frantic with anxiety.
  • Bessie and Abbot having retreated, Mrs. Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Custom Robo, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ray Kurzweil, License CC BY-SA 4.0