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

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Extremely, excessively, or feverishly passionate; zealous.

*1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 177:

*:In this case he saw himself sitting beside the breathing slender figure of Pia like someone in an old engraving – a beastly old Rembrandt exhaling the perfervid gloom of Protestantism and a diet of turnips.

*1989 , (Nick Cave), :

Ah threw mahself down the porch steps and fell to mah knees in the middle of the yard, wringing mah hands and beating at the sky and wailing and reeling in the red dust and petitioning the almighty with perfervid prayer.

*2002 , Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, p. 6:

*:A clown, Grantley Dixon, a perfervid parrot, with his militant slogans and second-hand attitudes: like all coffee-house radicals a screaming snob at heart.