Hectic

Adjective

 * 1) Of a fever, pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
 * 2) Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
 * The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds

Noun

 * 1)  A hectic fever.
 * 2)  A flush like one produced by such a fever.
 * 3) *1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.147:
 * For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills [...].

Adverbs for Hectic
feverishly; terribly; tensely; excitably; emotionally; crucially; breathlessly; hysterically; impetuously; poignantly; thrillingly; violently; hotly; angrily; decidedly; bitterly; intensely; peculiarly; curiously; strangely; queerly; extremely; inexplicably; unaccountably; unwarrantably; unusually.

Synonyms for Hectic
feverish, restless, nervous, unsettling, agitated, excited flustered.

Antonyms for Hectic
calm, cool, unhurried, serene.

Derived terms

 * hectically

Thesaurus
agitated, at fever pitch, bloom, blooming, blowzed, blowzy, blush, blushing, boiling, boiling over, burning, burning with excitement, burnt, bustling, busy, calenture, chaotic, childbed fever, coloring, continued fever, crimsoning, delirious, delirium, eruptive fever, excited, fanatical, febricity, febrile, febrility, fervent, fervid, fever, fever heat, fevered, feverish, feverishness, feverous, fieriness, fiery, fire, flaming, florid, flush, flushed, flushing, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, full-blooded, furious, glow, glowing, heat, heated, hectic fever, hectic flush, het up, hot, hyperactive, hyperkinetic, hyperpyretic, hyperpyrexia, hyperthermia, hyperthermic, hysteric, in a fever, in rut, incandescence, infatuated, inflamed, insane, intermittent fever, intrusive, mad, mantling, officious, overanxious, overdesirous, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, passionate, perfervid, protein fever, puerperal fever, pyretic, pyrexia, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed, red-hot, reddening, redness, relapsing fever, remittent, remittent fever, riotous, rosiness, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rubefacient, rubescence, rubicund, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, rufescence, rushed, sanguine, seething, sexually excited, steaming, steamy, sunburned, ultrazealous, urethral fever, vaccinal fever, warm, water fever, whiteness, wild, wound fever

Etymology
From etique:, from  *undefined:, from  έκτικός:, from έξις:, from έξειν:.

Adjective

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 * Dutch: hectisch
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 * Spanish: ajetreado,


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