frantically

English

Alternative forms

• frantickly (obsolete)
• franticly (rare)

Etymology

From earlier franticly, equivalent to frantic +‎ -ally.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæn.tɪk.li/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (General American):

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Adverb

frantically (comparative more frantically, superlative most frantically)

1. In a frantic manner.

   He searched frantically for his passport before the flight.

   • 2021 February 18, David Sirota, “Cuomo-gate: a Nixonian scandal is engulfing New York”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 March 2021, retrieved 14 December 2021:

     Amid a cacophony of demands for Cuomo to resign, the governor and his aides are frantically trying to cover up the basic facts of what happened, and that includes launching a Nixonian campaign of intimidation and retribution against Democratic lawmakers who have for months been sounding the alarm.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:frantically.
2. (UK, archaic, slang) Extremely; terribly.
   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

     "Oh yes; come in, Mr Carrados," she exclaimed graciously. "We are not quite strangers, you know. You found out something for Aunt Pigs; I forget what, but she was most frantically impressed."

Translations

in a frantic manner

• Bulgarian: неистово (bg) (neistovo)
• Catalan: frenèticament (ca)
• Czech: zoufale (cs)
• Dutch: verwoed (nl), woest (nl), krankzinnig (nl)
• Finnish: vimmatusti (fi), raivoisasti (fi), hurjasti (fi), vauhkosti, riehakkaasti (fi)
• French: éperdument (fr), frénétiquement (fr)
• German: hektisch (de), verzweifelt (de), wie verrückt
• Greek: αλλόφρονα (el) (allófrona), εμμανώς (el) (emmanós)

  Ancient Greek: ἐμμανῶς (emmanôs)

• Polish: gorączkowo (pl)
• Romanian: frenetic (ro)
• Russian: неи́стово (ru) (neístovo), безу́мно (ru) (bezúmno)
• Spanish: frenéticamente (es), desesperadamente