frenetic

/frəˈnɛdɪk/

/frɪˈnɛtɪk/

The adjective frenetic is another way to say frenzied, frantic, or totally worked up. Kind of how you'd run around the kitchen madly trying to cook a last-minute dinner for 30 of your closest friends.

Sometimes tinged with fear and often quite maniacal, frenetic comes from the Latin phreneticus, meaning “delirious.” The Latin word, in turn, came from a similarly spelled Greek word which, when translated literally, means “inflammation of the brain.” So it's no surprise that a frenetic person looks absolutely crazed and super anxious.

Definitions of frenetic

1. adjective

   fast and energetic in an uncontrolled or wild way
   antonyms:

   unhurried

   relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste

   careful, deliberate, measured

   unhurried and with care and dignity

   easy, easygoing, leisurely

   not hurried or forced
2. adjective

   excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
   “frenetic screams followed the accident”

   synonyms: frantic, frenzied, phrenetic

   agitated

   troubled emotionally and usually deeply