frantic
adjective
[ ˈfrantɪk ]
• distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion.
• "she was frantic with worry"
Similar:
panic-stricken,
panic-struck,
panicky,
beside oneself,
at one's wits' end,
berserk,
distraught,
overwrought,
worked up,
agitated,
distressed,
frenzied,
wild,
frenetic,
fraught,
fevered,
feverish,
hysterical,
mad,
crazed,
out of control,
uncontrolled,
unhinged,
out of one's mind,
maniacal,
demented,
desperate,
in a state,
in a tizzy/tizz,
wound up,
het up,
in a flap,
in a cold sweat,
tearing one's hair out,
having kittens,
in a flat spin,
swivel-eyed,
Origin:
late Middle English frentik, ‘insane, violently mad’, from Old French frenetique (see frenetic).
