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| Main Entry: | frenzied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled |
| Synonyms: | agitated, berserk, delirious, distracted, distraught, excited, feverish, frantic, frenetic, furious, hysterical, mad, maniacal, nuts*, rabid, wild, convulsive, corybantic |
| Antonyms: | calm, controlled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crazed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insane |
| Synonyms: | berserk, certifiable, crazy, demented, deranged, frenzied, hysterical, lunatic, mad, maniac, manic, mental*, out of one's mind, psychopathic, raving |
| Antonyms: | sane |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demented |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, insane |
| Synonyms: | bananas, bemused, crackbrained, daft, delirious, deranged, distracted, distraught, flipped out, foolish, frenzied, fruity, hysterical, idiotic, in the ozone, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, manic, non compos mentis, nutty as a fruitcake, out of one's gourd, out of one's tree, psycho, psychopathic, psychotic, schitzy, schizoid, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged*, unsound, whacko |
| Antonyms: | balanced, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil |
| Synonyms: | bad, crazed, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, fired, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hellish, impious, infernal, insane, inspired, mad, maniacal, manic, possessed, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, violent, wicked, aroused, demoniac, demoniacal |
| Antonyms: | angelic, godlike, good, moral |
| Main Entry: | deranged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, insane |
| Synonyms: | ape*, baked*, berserk, cracked*, crazed, delirious, demented, disconcerted, disordered, displaced, distracted, dotty*, frantic, frenzied, fried*, irrational, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, nuts*, perplexed, unbalanced, unhinged*, unsettled, unsound, bananas, disarranged, flipped, flipped out, loco, maddened, schizzo, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, whacko |
| Antonyms: | balanced, calm, sane, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ecstatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy, blissful |
| Synonyms: | beatific, crazy, delirious, dreamy, elated, enthusiastic, fervent, floating, frenzied, gone*, high*, joyful, joyous, mad, on cloud nine*, out, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic, sent, sunny, thrilled, tickled pink*, transported, upbeat, wild, athrill, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, flying high, in exaltation, in seventh heaven, pleased as punch, ravished, tickled to death, turned on |
| Antonyms: | sorrowful, troubled, unhappy, despaired, tormented |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | explosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | volatile, dangerous |
| Synonyms: | bursting, charged, consequential, ebullient, fiery, forceful, frenzied, hazardous, impetuous, meteoric, overwrought, perilous, raging, rampant, stormy, tense, touchy, ugly, uncontrollable, unstable, vehement, violent, wild, at the boiling point, convulsive, detonating, detonative, eruptive, fulminant, fulminating |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful, safe |
| Main Entry: | fanatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, burning*, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, enthusiastic, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, narrow-minded, obsessed, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, passionate, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, unruly, violent, visionary, wild, willful, zealous, bugged, high on, monomaniacal, nuts for, obsessive, turned on |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, dispassionate, impartial, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressed, distracted |
| Synonyms: | agitated, angry, at wits' end, berserk, beside oneself*, corybantic, crazy, delirious, deranged, distraught, excited, flipped out, fraught, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hot and bothered*, hot under the collar*, hyper, in a stew, in a tizzy, insane, keyed up, mad, out of control, overwrought, rabid, raging, raving, shook up, spazzed out, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, violent, weird, weirded out, wigged out, wild, wired*, worked up, zonkers |
| Notes: | frantic (from Latin phrenecticus 'frenetic') pertains to a mental state or condition, to a frame of mind, whereas that of frenetic pertains rather to a type of behavior or conduct |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, composed, docile, peaceful, tranquil |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frenetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | maniacal |
| Synonyms: | delirious, demented, distraught, excited, fanatical, frantic, frenzied, furious, insane, mad, overwrought, rabid, unbalanced, wild, wired*, corybantic, furibund, hyper, in a lather, lost it, obsessive, phrenetic, unscrewed, weirded out, wigged out |
| Antonyms: | balanced, calm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hectic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frantic, turbulent |
| Synonyms: | animated, boisterous, burning, chaotic, confused, disordered, excited, exciting, fervid, feverish, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hassle, heated, jungle*, madhouse*, restless, riotous, tumultuous, unsettled, wild, woolly*, fevered, flurrying, flustering, hell broke loose, nutsy, rip-roaring, zoolike |
| Antonyms: | calm, leisurely, unhurried, easeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hysterical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset, excited |
| Synonyms: | agitated, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, crazed, crazy, delirious, distracted, distraught, emotional, fiery, frantic, frenzied, furious, impassioned, impetuous, incensed, irrepressible, mad, nervous, neurotic, overwrought, panic-stricken, passionate, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, carried away, convulsive, fuming, in a fit, maddened, seething, unnerved, worked up |
| Antonyms: | calm, serene, controlled |
| Main Entry: | insane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally ill; foolish |
| Synonyms: | batty*, bizarre, cracked*, crazed, crazy, cuckoo*, daft, demented, derailed, deranged, fatuous, frenzied, idiotic, impractical, irrational, irresponsible, loony*, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nuts*, nutty*, of unsound mind, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, paranoid, preposterous, psychopathic, psychotic, rabid, raging, raving, schizophrenic, screwy, senseless, touched, unhinged, unsettled, wild |
| Antonyms: | balanced, healthy, rational, reasonable, sane, sound, well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | manic/maniacal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overexcited, crazy |
| Synonyms: | berserk, crazed, demented, deranged, excited, frenzied, high*, insane, lunatic, mad, nutty*, psychotic, rabid, raving, unbalanced, up*, wild, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, freaky, turned-out |
| Antonyms: | balanced, calm, sane |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | possessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitched; under a spell |
| Synonyms: | berserk*, crazed*, cursed, demented, enchanted, fiendish, frenetic, frenzied, gone*, haunted, hooked*, insane, into*, mad*, obsessed, raving*, violent, bedeviled, consumed, enthralled, taken over |
| Antonyms: | normal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rabid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; maniacal |
| Synonyms: | berserk, bigoted, bitten, crazed*, crazy, delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical, fervent, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hot*, infuriated, insane, intemperate, intolerant, irrational, keen, mad, narrow-minded, nutty*, obsessed, poisoned, radical, raging, revolutionary, sick*, ultra, violent, virulent, wild, zealous, corybantic, flipped, foaming at the mouth, freaked out, mad-dog, overboard, sizzling, smoking, steamed up, ultraist |
| Antonyms: | delighted, happy, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | raging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent; mad |
| Synonyms: | angry, at boiling point, bent out of shape, bent*, beside oneself*, blowing a gasket, blowing one's top, blustering, blustery, boiling mad, boiling over, enraged, fit to be tied*, frenzied, fuming, furious, going ape, incensed, infuriated, irate, mad as a hornet, on the warpath, rabid*, ranting and raving, raving, raving mad, rough, seeing red, seething, stormy, tempestuous, throwing a fit, turbulent, wild |
| Antonyms: | delighted, giddy, gleeful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rash |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless, impulsive |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, audacious, bold, brash, daring, determined, devil-may-care*, fiery, foolhardy, frenzied, furious, harebrained, hasty, headlong, headstrong, heedless, hotheaded, ill-advised, immature, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, irrational, madcap, passionate, precipitate, premature, reckless, thoughtless, unguarded, unthinking, unwary, venturesome, wild, ill-considered, insuppressible, jumping to conclusions, overhasty, precipitant, venturous |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, planned, thoughtful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | manic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy |
| Synonyms: | berserk, crazed, demented, deranged, excited, frenzied, high, insane, lunatic, mad, maniacal, nutty, overexcited, psychotic, rabid, raving, unbalanced, up, wild, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, freaky, hopped up, turned out |
| Antonyms: | sane |
| Main Entry: | desperate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, outrageous |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, audacious, bold, careless, dangerous, daring, determined, devil-may-care, foolhardy, frantic, frenzied, furious, hasty, hazardous, headlong, headstrong, heinous, impetuous, incautious, madcap, monstrous, precipitate, rash, risky, scandalous, shocking, venturesome, violent, wild, death-defying |
| Antonyms: | confident, content, satisfied, secure, unworried |
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