FRENETICALLY Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

frenetically

adverb

as in frantically

in a confused and reckless manner we spent all morning frenetically searching the house for the lost keys

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Recent Examples of frenetically An accompanying video features frenetically edited footage of jazz clubs, video games, eating, drinking, dancing, and more. — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 9 Sep. 2026 What kind of people rush into a public toilet and frenetically whisper? — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026 Third base coach Bobby Crosby frenetically waved him home, and Wilson hit the turn hard. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 25 June 2026 And the score by Michael Abels (who collaborated with Jordan Peele on Get Out and Nope) is an all-timer, unsettling and steeped in dread to start and then frenetically nerve-shredding as things get hairier. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026 Their conversation bounced around frenetically, as their conversations tended to do. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026 Countless moths beat frenetically around the trap’s white, diaphanous panels, which are swaying with ghostly ripples in a gentle breeze. — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025 Singer Brendan Yates’ intensity — at one point leaping with abandon, at another frenetically thrusting — is what makes Turnstile cook. — Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025 But then, given how frenetically thrashing the entire tariff and trade policy and strategy have been in practice, expecting a predictable rollout and impact was probably unrealistic on everyone’s part. — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025

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The trailer begins as Ziegler’s Mae frantically asks family friend Benny, played by a sleepy Rob Lowe, for help after her big mistake — kissing the wrong brother between Graham Phillips’ Andrew and Elias Kacavas’ Theo.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
This is a comeback story of the highest order because Taylor Moton's life was at risk, blood was splattered all over his chest, and doctors frantically rushed to keep him from dying from a life-threatening emergency.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of frantically

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It's regarded as wildly unethical and cruel, so the rationale for Netflix turning it into a TV show, where 30 people enter a real prison for two weeks, is hard to justify.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
Because this animal was thrashing wildly, Packard could sense he’d been picked up in error.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of wildly

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