Frenetic vs Crazy - What's the difference?
frenetic | crazy |
Fast, harried; having extreme enthusiasm or energy.
(obsolete) Mentally deranged, insane.
(obsolete, medicine) Characterised by manifestations of delirium or madness.
Insane; lunatic; demented.
* 1663 , (Samuel Butler), (Hudibras)
* , chapter=5
, title= Out of control.
Overly excited or enthusiastic.
* R. B. Kimball
In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
(informal) Unexpected; surprising.
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
* Macaulay
* Addison
* Jeffrey
An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
As adjectives the difference between frenetic and crazy
is that frenetic is fast, harried; having extreme enthusiasm or energy while crazy is insane; lunatic; demented.As nouns the difference between frenetic and crazy
is that frenetic is one who is frenetic while crazy is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.As an adverb crazy is
(slang) very, extremely.frenetic
English
Alternative forms
* phrenetic (dated) * phrenetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- After a week of working at a frenetic pace, she was ready for Saturday.
Synonyms
*frantic, frenziedExternal links
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*crazy
English
Adjective
(er)- Over moist and crazy brains.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
- Piles of mean and crazy houses.
- One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
- They got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.