About The Word Hectic
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Hectic
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What's The Definition Of Hectic?
[adj] marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hectic: agitated | feverish Related Terms | Find terms related to Hectic: 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 | reddening | red-faced | red-fleshed | red-hot | 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 See Also | Hectic In Webster's Dictionary \Hec"tic\, a. [F. hectique, Gr. ? habitual, consumptive,
fr. ? habit, a habit of body or mind, fr. ? to have; akin to
Skr. sah to overpower, endure; cf. AS. sige, sigor, victory,
G. sieg, Goth. sigis. Cf. {Scheme}.]
1. Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow
waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic
type in disease; a hectic flush.
2. In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive;
as, a hectic patient.
{Hectic fever} (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility,
occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting
disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.
\Hec"tic\, n. 1. (Med.) Hectic fever. 2. A hectic flush. It is no living hue, but a strange hectic. --Byron. |
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