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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited; very happy |
| Synonyms: | beside oneself, carried away, corybantic, crazy, delighted, drunk*, ecstatic, enthused, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hysterical, intoxicated, mad, overwrought, rabid*, rapturous, thrilled, transported, wild |
| Antonyms: | unexcited, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frenetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | maniacal |
| Synonyms: | corybantic, delirious, demented, distraught, excited, fanatical, frantic, frenzied, furibund, furious, hyper, in a lather, insane, lost it, mad, obsessive, overwrought, phrenetic, rabid, unbalanced, unscrewed, weirded out, wigged out, wild, wired |
| Notes: | frantic (from Latin phrenecticus 'frenetic') pertains to a mental state or condition, to a frame of mind, whereas that of frenetic pertains rather to a type of behavior or conduct |
| Antonyms: | balanced, calm |
| Main Entry: | frenzied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled |
| Synonyms: | agitated, berserk, convulsive, corybantic, delirious, distracted, distraught, excited, feverish, frantic, frenetic, furious, hysterical, mad, maniacal, nuts, rabid, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, controlled |
| Main Entry: | furious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely angry, very mad |
| Synonyms: | bent out of shape, bent*, beside oneself, boiling, browned off, bummed out, corybantic, crazed, demented, desperate, enraged, fierce, fit to be tied, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fuming, hacked, hopping mad, incensed, infuriated, insane, irrational, livid, maddened, maniac, on the warpath, rabid, raging, smoking, steamed, unreasonable, up in arms, vehement, vicious, violent, wrathful |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, excited, exhilarated, happy, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rabid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; maniacal |
| Synonyms: | berserk, bigoted, bitten, corybantic, crazed, crazy, delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical, fervent, flipped, foaming at the mouth, frantic, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hot*, infuriated, insane, intemperate, intolerant, irrational, keen, mad, mad-dog, narrow-minded, nutty, obsessed, overboard, poisoned, radical, raging, revolutionary, sick*, sizzling, smoking, steamed up, ultra, ultraist, violent, virulent, wild, zealous |
| Antonyms: | delighted, happy, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ireful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | furious |
| Synonyms: | bent out of shape, bent*, beside oneself, boiling, browned off, bummed out, corybantic, crazed, demented, desperate, enraged, fierce, fit to be tied, foaming at the mouth, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fuming, hacked, hopping mad, in a towering rage, incensed, infuriated, insane, irate, irrational, livid, maddened, maniac, on the warpath, rabid, rage, raging, smoking, steamed, unreasonable, up in arms, vehement, vicious, violent, wrathful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | madding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frantic |
| Synonyms: | agitated, angry, at wits' end, berserk, beside oneself, corybantic, crazy*, delirious, deranged, distraught, excited, flipped out, fraught, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hot and bothered, hot under the collar, hyper*, hysterical, in a stew, in a tizzy, insane, keyed up, mad, out of control, overwrought, panic-stricken, rabid, raging, raving, shook up, spazzed out, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, violent, weird*, weirded out, wigged out, wild, wired, worked up, zonkers |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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