Crowded vs Hectic - What's the difference?
crowded | hectic |
Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
(obsolete) A hectic fever.
(obsolete) A flush like one produced by such a fever.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.147:
As adjectives the difference between crowded and hectic
is that crowded is containing too many of something; teeming while hectic is pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.As a verb crowded
is (crowd).As a noun hectic is
(obsolete) a hectic fever.hectic
English
Alternative forms
* hectick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- hectic''' fever; a '''hectic patient
- The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
Synonyms
* feverishDerived terms
* hecticallyNoun
(en noun)- For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills [...].