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21. Apr. 2010 · I would use hectic to mean that I (or someone else) was very busy or had many activities to do - "I had a hectic morning getting the children off to school." Frantic, to me, would suggest more of an emotional situation - "I was frantic with worry when they didn't come home on time." I think, perhaps, frenzied and frenetic are more similar ...
8. Feb. 2022 · Sinhala. Feb 8, 2022. #1. There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow Wycherly. They were all melancholy old creatures, who had been unfortunate in life, and whose greatest misfortune it was that they were not long ago in their graves.
22. Jan. 2016 · He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fear, and I received him in frantic sort ...
13. Jan. 2016 · Jan 13, 2016. #3. Are those translations correct: 1. "a hectic day at work" = a very busy and exhausting day. The day had lot of things to do and those all made the person very tired. 2. "a busyday at work" = a very busy day but not necessarily exhausting day. The day had lot of things to do but at the end of the day the person was not much tired.
15. Sept. 2024 · I told him to ring my answerphone, which held twenty-two frantic messages from his friends, all distraught because he had disappeared for twenty-four hours, which put paid to all our fears about dying alone and being eaten by an Alsatian. 'Or not being found for three months . . . and bursting all over the carpet,' said Tom.
2. Sept. 2011 · Frantic is usually used when someone is afraid or worried, such as when parents are looking for a missing child. If someone dances frantically, it would mean something was wrong, like they were under some strange compulsion, such as a bewitched person in a fairy tale. For more normal circumstances we might say something like dance wildly
21. Jan. 2016 · The context comes from Jane Eyre Chapter 1. He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated ...
21. Mai 2021 · Italian. May 21, 2021. #1. Good morning to everyone! I'm translating a biography and would leave the sentence "studio matto e disperatissimo", a delightful Leopardi quote, in Italian... but I need a proper translation to put in notes. I think that "crazy and desperate study" doesn't fit well, since the elegance of this quote.
11. Juli 2020 · “You mean you want to fry my eggs for me?” “Yes.” She nodded. “And dam my socks?” “Yes.” A frantic, watery-eyed nodding. Source:The veldt ,by Ray Bradbury Q: Does "dam my socks" here means to wash my socks?
22. Apr. 2017 · Apr 22, 2017. #1. Generation Gap. He was worried. Unfortunately, since his wife’s death his teenage daughter had become increasingly difficult. They had agreed 2.00 a.m. as the latest return time from nightclubs. It was now 3.30. He prepared himself for confrontation as the door opened.
