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Word definitions for hectic in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a busy/hectic lifestyle ▪ Many people these days have a busy lifestyle. a hectic/frantic pace (= a very fast and hurried speed ) ▪ We worked at a hectic pace. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN day ▪ Time spent in ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., etik (in fever etik ), from Old French etique "consumptive," from Late Latin hecticus , from Greek hektikos "continuous, habitual, consumptive" (of a disease, because of the constant fever), from hexis "a habit (of mind or body)," from ekhein ...
Usage examples of hectic.
That thought, so ordinary for an airman on hectic days, made him shudder now that he was excluded from the life of the airfield.
Perhaps Renz was irked because he lost his gun to Alker in the hectic struggle in which The Shadow had participated.
They were being pushed around all over the place, getting briefed and kitted out for their posting and it was a hectic time for the whole flight-except me.
The mares are foaling and everything is more hectic than you can imagine!
But the hectic flush of triumph and pleasure which his interview with the Deputation had called into his cheeks, still colored them as brightly as ever, when Matthew Grice entered the room.
The general health is seriously impaired, and the patient becomes debilitated, anaemic, and hectic.
The uncertain light of dusk softened their raddled features and hectic painted cheeks and lips - Huy wondered what solace a man could find with the likes of them.
Alpha Centauri and this space station, where Ambassador Rikka and his political types had just finished a hectic round of preliminary talks with Alliance officials, by the fastest means possible.
Leaving his room brusquely, to take this revelation away and try to fit it into the hectic tangram of recent events, she had hardly reached the newel at the stairhead when she heard a crash.
Stepping into the water, catching her chin in his fingers, Chantz looked deeply into her eyes, his body tense and wary, as if he could sense something hectic and unabandoned in her behind the calm of her voice.
I should have been, but on the surface there seemed to be no problem, and I hope you understand that right now, particularly with all the Parthanian Cloud questions, the ad valorem tax changes, and the Force Command tax proposal, things have been a bit hectic.
For a few hectic days, I spent eight or more hours a day on the phone, talking to Ellen back in Little Rock and to Broyles and Holtz in Miami.
Spallanzani, this fellow who reveled in gaudy celebrations and vast enthusiastic lecturings, this hero of the crowd, this magnifico, crawled away from all his triumphs and pleasures to do one of the cleverest and most marvelously ingenious pieces of patient work in his hectic life.
Henry told Molly during the early hectic days shortly before they formed the first Parapsychic Center.
Most of the guests had gone, but the rest were listening to a hectic argument between Hedwin and Salter on the subject of the fire god, Xitli.