Frenzied is a word that is commonly used to refer to a person who has been affected with, or whose behaviour is characterised by, frenzy or mania, which is usually uncontrollable, and which does not recognise any logic or reasoning.
The word frenzied is also a synonym of the word frantic, which means (a person who is) excessively agitated or transported with rage or another violent emotion. The words that are similar in meaning to the word frenzied are the words manic, frantic, hyperactive, turbulent, harried, furious, hysterical, mad and possessed.
In literature, the word frenzied appears in the writings of several writers. Charles Dickens, in the book A Tale of Two Cities, has written a line which states that: And as the frantic wielders of these weapons snatched them from the stream of sparks and tore away into the streets, the same red hue was red in their frenzied eyes; eyes which any unbrutalised beholder would have given twenty years of life, to petrify with a well-directed gun.
The word frenzied is also a synonym of the word frantic, which means (a person who is) excessively agitated or transported with rage or another violent emotion. The words that are similar in meaning to the word frenzied are the words manic, frantic, hyperactive, turbulent, harried, furious, hysterical, mad and possessed.
In literature, the word frenzied appears in the writings of several writers. Charles Dickens, in the book A Tale of Two Cities, has written a line which states that: And as the frantic wielders of these weapons snatched them from the stream of sparks and tore away into the streets, the same red hue was red in their frenzied eyes; eyes which any unbrutalised beholder would have given twenty years of life, to petrify with a well-directed gun.
