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frantically

/ˈfɹæn.tɪk.li/

frantically adverb: in a frantic manner.

Adverb

frantically (comparative more frantically, superlative most frantically)

  1. In a frantic manner.
    • He searched frantically for his passport before the flight.
    • 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.2021 February 18, David Sirota, “Cuomo-gate: a Nixonian scandal is engulfing New York”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2021, retrieved 14 Dec 2021
  2. (UK, archaic, slang) Extremely; terribly.
    • "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."1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

frantically meaning in Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

frantically in Tamil

வெறிப்போக்கான

frantically in Marathi

उन्मत्तपणे

frantically in Bengali

উন্মত্তভাবে

Examples of frantically in a sentence

  • My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.
  • Some play side by side, some frantically text distant servermates; others are powerlevelling with near-catatonic detachment.
  • She frantically summoned the flight attendant and gasped, “Whifty, I'm feeling whifty.”

All 30 example sentences with frantically

Forms of frantically

comparativemore frantically
superlativemost frantically
alternative form (obsolete)frantickly
alternative form (rare)franticly

Origin of frantically

From earlier franticly, equivalent to frantic + -ally.

Questions about frantically

What does frantically mean?
Frantically means in a frantic manner.
What is frantically in Tamil?
Frantically in Tamil is வெறிப்போக்கான. See Frantically meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is frantically?
Frantically is an adverb.
How do you pronounce frantically?
Frantically is pronounced /ˈfɹæn.tɪk.li/.

Words near frantically in the dictionary

  1. Fransén-Robinson constant
  2. Frant
  3. Franta
  4. Frantas
  5. frantic
  6. frantically
  7. franticity
  8. frantick
  9. frantickly
  10. franticly
  11. franticness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: frantically (page history and authors); frantically (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); frantically (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); frantically (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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