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Definitions for Hectic

[1] characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
[2] characterized by extreme activity or excitement
[3] associated with, peculiar to, or symptomatic of tuberculosis (esp in the phrases hectic fever, hectic flush )
[4] a hectic fever or flush
[5] rare a person who is consumptive or who experiences a hectic fever or flush

Words related to Hectic

frenzied, chaotic, unsettled, boisterous, heated, tumultuous, frenetic, exciting, animated, burning, confused, disordered, excited, fervid, feverish, furious, hassle, jungle, madhouse, restless

Words nearby Hectic

heckelphone, heckle, heckuva, hect-, hectare, hectic, hecto-, hectocotylus, hectogram, hectograph, hectoliter

Origin of Hectic

1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin hecticus < Greek hektikós habitual, consumptive, adj. corresponding to héxis possession, state, habit, equivalent to *hech-, base of échein to have + -sis -sis; see -tic; replacing Middle English etyk < Middle French

Other words from Hectic

hec·ti·cal·ly , hec·tic·ly , adverb
hec·tic·ness , noun
non·hec·tic , adjective
non·hec·ti·cal·ly , adverb
un·hec·tic , adjective
un·hec·ti·cal·ly , adverb

Word origin for Hectic

C14: from Late Latin hecticus, from Greek hektikos habitual, from hexis state, from ekhein to have

Synonyms for Hectic

boisterous, chaotic, exciting, frenetic, frenzied, heated, tumultuous, unsettled, animated, burning, confused, disordered, excited, fervid, fevered, feverish, flurrying, flustering, furious, hassle, hell broke loose, jungle, madhouse, nutsy, restless, riotous, rip-roaring, wild, woolly, zoolike