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Angry vs Frantic - What's the difference?

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Angry is a related term of frantic.


As adjectives the difference between angry and frantic

is that angry is displaying or feeling anger while frantic is insane, mentally unstable.

angry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Displaying or feeling anger.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
  • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
  • Dark and stormy, menacing.
  • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
  • * {{quote-book, 1756, (Christopher Smart), 3= The Book of the Epodes, chapter=Ode II, by=(Horace)
  • , passage=

    Synonyms

    * (displaying anger) mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up * See also

    Derived terms

    * angrily * angriness * Angry Young Man

    See also

    * (Anger)

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    frantic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * frantick (obsolete) * phrantic (chiefly obsolete) * phrantick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Insane, mentally unstable.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:
  • Master have mercy on my sonne, for he is franticke : and ys sore vexed.
  • In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush.
  • They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.
  • Extremely energetic
  • frantic music
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.}}

    Synonyms

    * frenetic, frenzied

    Anagrams

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