frantic

Other forms of frantic

comparative

franticer·

superlative

franticest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about frantic

What does frantic mean?

frantic means "excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frantic?

frantic has 2 syllables: fran-tic. The stress falls on "fran". In IPA it is /ˈfɹæntɪk/.

What is another word for frantic?

Close synonyms include frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied, delirious, excited. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frantic a common word?

frantic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.