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hectic

/ˈhɛk.tɪk/

hecticadjective

more hectic

Comp.

most hectic

Super.

/ˈhɛk.tɪk/

Translations

беспокойный

The office was hectic with everyone rushing to meet the deadline.

Офис был беспокойным, так как все спешили уложиться в срок.

лихорадочный

She had a hectic schedule with meetings back-to-back.

У нее был лихорадочный график с встречами одна за другой.

суматошный

The market was hectic with shoppers during the holiday season.

Рынок был суматошным из-за покупателей в праздничный сезон.

Definitions

Full of incessant or frantic activity.

The office was hectic as everyone rushed to meet the deadline.

Characterized by intense agitation, excitement, or confusion.

The concert was a hectic event with fans cheering and dancing wildly.

Affected by or relating to a recurrent fever marked by flushes and emaciation (now chiefly historical).

The patient lay in bed, her cheeks bearing the hectic glow of a lingering fever.

Having a flushed or feverish appearance, especially of the cheeks, characteristic of certain fevers such as tuberculosis (historical).

A hectic flush colored his otherwise pale face.

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Antonyms

hecticnoun

hectics

/ˈhɛk.tɪk/

Archaic medical usage referring to a specific fever or a person suffering from it.

Definitions

A recurrent fever accompanied by flushes of heat, sweating, and weight loss, especially associated with tuberculosis.

In the nineteenth century, consumption patients often succumbed to a hectic.

A person suffering from a hectic fever, especially from tuberculosis (historical).

The poet, a thin hectic, composed verses from his sickbed.