frantically

comparative more frantically · superlative most frantically · alternative obsolete frantickly · alternative rare franticly

1. In a frantic manner.

   He searched frantically for his passport before the flight.

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   Amid a cacophony of demands for Cuomo to resign, the governor and his aides are frantically trying to cover up the basic facts of what happened, and that includes launching a Nixonian campaign of intimidation and retribution against Democratic lawmakers who have for months been sounding the alarm.

   2021 February 18, David Sirota, “Cuomo-gate: a Nixonian scandal is engulfing New York”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2021, retrieved 14 Dec 2021

2. UKarchaicslangExtremely; terribly.

   "Oh yes; come in, Mr Carrados," she exclaimed graciously. "We are not quite strangers, you know. You found out something for Aunt Pigs; I forget what, but she was most frantically impressed."

   1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados