Angry vs Frantic - What's the difference?
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Displaying or feeling anger.
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(said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
Dark and stormy, menacing.
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Insane, mentally unstable.
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In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush.
Extremely energetic
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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)- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- Angry clouds raced across the sky.
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Synonyms
* (displaying anger) mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up * See alsoDerived terms
* angrily * angriness * Angry Young ManSee also
* (Anger)Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----frantic
English
Alternative forms
* frantick (obsolete) * phrantic (chiefly obsolete) * phrantick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Master have mercy on my sonne, for he is franticke : and ys sore vexed.
- They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.
- frantic music
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