'Hectic' definitions:
Definition of 'hectic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace" [syn: feverish, hectic]
Definition of 'Hectic'
From: GCIDE
- Hectic \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient. [1913 Webster]
- Hectic fever (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hectic'
From: GCIDE
- Hectic \Hec"tic\, n.
- 1. (Med.) Hectic fever. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A hectic flush. [1913 Webster]
- It is no living hue, but a strange hectic. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hectic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- red-faced,
- red-fleshed,
- red-hot,
- reddening,
- 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