frantically

[ fran-tik-lee ]
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adverb
  1. in a desperate, wild, or frenzied way, out of extreme excitement, pain, fear, etc.:All this time I was searching frantically in the trash can for my missing keys until, just when I thought all was lost, my finger touched something that jingled.

Origin of frantically

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  • Rarely fran·tic·ly .

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How to use frantically in a sentence

  • "She loves him," exclaimed Morley, wildly, and he rushed franticly from the room.

    Sybil | Benjamin Disraeli
  • Not a rebel was to be seen, except those in the tree franticly scrambling to get out, and two others.

    Cudjo's Cave | J. T. Trowbridge
  • She rushed franticly to the opposite side of the bed from that on which the doctor stood, and violently seized his wrist.

  • I planned the whole scene with an earnest heart and franticly set my soul on this project.

    Mathilda | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • John Blomfield, alias John Newton, started as if an adder had bitten him, and gazed franticly upon the intruder.