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hectick

hectick is the obsolete form of hectic.

Meaning of hectic

Adjective

hectic (comparative more hectic, superlative most hectic)

  1. (figuratively) Very busy with activity and confusion.
    • The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
    Synonyms:
    feverish
  2. (obsolete) Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.
    • hectic fever
  3. (obsolete) Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.
    • Ann had a hectic cough, and many unfavourable prognostics […].1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, chapter VI, in Mary: A Fiction

See all 5 meanings of hectic

Forms of hectick

Adjective
comparativemore hectick
superlativemost hectick
Noun
pluralhecticks

Questions about hectick

What is hectick the obsolete form of?
Hectick is the obsolete form of hectic.

Words near hectick in the dictionary

  1. hectastyle
  2. hectic
  3. hectical
  4. hectically
  5. hecticity
  6. hectick
  7. hecticks
  8. hecticly
  9. hecticness
  10. hectics
  11. hectivities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hectick (page history and authors); hectic (page history and authors). 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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