HECTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hectic mean? 

• HECTIC (adjective)
  The adjective HECTIC has 1 sense:

1. marked by intense agitation or emotion

  Familiarity information: HECTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HECTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by intense agitation or emotion

Synonyms:

feverish; hectic

Context example:

worked at a feverish pace

Similar:

agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)

 Context examples 

Holiday time is always hectic, but this full moon will give you a chance to pull back, catch your breath, and decide what you’d like to accomplish in the coming year, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Those hectic spots were more pronounced, the eyes shone more brightly out of darker hollows, and a cold sweat glimmered upon his brow.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lady Bertram could think nothing less, and Fanny shared her aunt's security, till she received a few lines from Edmund, written purposely to give her a clearer idea of his brother's situation, and acquaint her with the apprehensions which he and his father had imbibed from the physician with respect to some strong hectic symptoms, which seemed to seize the frame on the departure of the fever.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Your schedule will open up when delays and postponements arise, and that will lead to a slightly less hectic time in November, for on those days that suddenly have nothing scheduled, you can follow your own agenda.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

His eyes had the brightness of fever, there was a hectic flush upon either cheek, and dark crusts clung to his lips; the thin hands upon the coverlet twitched incessantly, his voice was croaking and spasmodic.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)