hectic
adjectifnomattesté dans les dialogues
- //ˈhɛktɪk//
Very busy with activity and confusion.
adjectif
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figuréVery busy with activity and confusion.
The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
Phoenix:It must have been too hectic that night to clean up.
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obsolèteDenoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.
hectic fever
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obsolètePertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.
Ann had a hectic cough, and many unfavourable prognostics […].
She never complained, but sleep and appetite fled from her, a slow fever preyed on her veins, her colour was hectic, and she often wept in secret […].
Étymologie
From Middle English etik, ethik, from Old French etique, from Medieval Latin *hecticus, from Ancient Greek ἑκτικός (hektikós, “habitual, hectic, consumptive”), from ἕξις (héxis, “a state or habit of body or of mind, condition”), from ἔχειν (ékhein, “to have, hold, be in a certain state”).
nom
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obsolèteA hectic fever.
[…] Do it England, / For like the Hecticke in my blood he rages, / And thou muſt cure me: […]
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obsolèteA flush like one produced by such a fever.
The poor Franciscan made no reply: a hectic of a moment pass’d across his cheek, but could not tarry […]
For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills […]
an angry hectic in each cheek, a fierce flirt of her fan, and two or three short sniffs that betokened mischief
Formes
- pluriel
- hectics
- comparatif
- more hectic
- superlatif
- most hectic
hectic · Very busy with activity and confusion.
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