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Definitions for Frenzy

[1] extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.
[2] a fit or spell of violent mental excitement; a paroxysm characteristic of or resulting from a mania: He is subject to these frenzies several times a year.
[3] to drive to frenzy; make frantic: She was frenzied by fear when she smelled the smoke.
[4] violent mental derangement
[5] wild excitement or agitation; distraction
[6] a bout of wild or agitated activity a frenzy of preparations
[7] (tr) to make frantic; drive into a frenzy

Words related to Frenzy

turmoil, fever, madness, burst, fury, rage, excitement, mania, passion, free-for-all, furor, outburst, craze, hysteria, agitation, ruction, seizure, conniption, convulsion, transport

Words nearby Frenzy

frenulum of prepuce, frenulum of pudendal lips, frenulum of tongue, frenum, frenzied, frenzy, freon, freq., frequency, frequency band, frequency curve

Origin of Frenzy

1300–50; Middle English frenesie < Old French < Late Latin phrenēsis < Late Greek, for Greek phrenîtis; see phrenitis

Other words from Frenzy

fren·zi·ly , adverb

Word origin for Frenzy

C14: from Old French frenesie , from Late Latin phrēnēsis madness, delirium, from Late Greek, ultimately from Greek phrēn mind; compare frenetic

Synonyms for Frenzy

burst, craze, excitement, fever, free-for-all, furor, fury, hysteria, madness, mania, outburst, passion, rage, turmoil, aberration, agitation, blow, bout, conniption, convulsion, delirium, derangement, distemper, distraction, dithers, ferment, fit, flap, fuss, insanity, lather, lunacy, paroxysm, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, seizure, spasm, stew, stir, to-do, transport, blow a fuse, blow one's cork, blow one's stack, blow one's top, flip one's lid, hell broke loose, wingding