hectic
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3.9
- adjective
- /ˈhɛktɪk/
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ajetreado
- My schedule has been incredibly hectic this week with all the meetings and deadlines.
- a hectic schedule
- a hectic day
- a hectic life
It's slower, it's not hectic, it's peaceful.
- It's slower, it's not hectic, it's peaceful.
- I think the manner in which Khabib fights is just hectic, crazy fast pace.
- I hope you guys love this Hectic vlog of decorating with me.
- So if the battle is, hey, my job is super hectic, OK, great.
- Life is crazy hectic and you need to be practical.
- Welcome back to the channel guys and to another hectic and exciting vlog.
- So it's been a very, very hectic Tuesday today.
- He stayed calm and steady throughout all of those wild, hectic storms because that's just who he was.
- My life has just been too hectic lately to really go full hearted for it.
- It sounds like an exciting, stressful, hectic job.
- This has been a a hectic week.
- Yeah, over the past three weeks or so, things were very hectic.
- I know the Joe Liset show feels very hectic as well.
- And so some of those seasons in the middle I found really hectic and wonderfully grateful for all of it.
Examples
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As you can imagine, things have been a little hectic around here.
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Christy left for New York this morning, and... let's just say things were very hectic around the house.
Fiction book (1999) -
OK, that was way more hectic than I expected for sure.
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So let this hectic day begin.
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Look, my life has been kind of hectic all at once.
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So it's been a very, very hectic Tuesday today.
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It's been a bit hectic around here.
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Christmas is always a wonderful and hectic time of the year around our house.
Fiction book (1992) -
It's been such a hectic month because Rick and I got a puppy.
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Uh, things have been a bit hectic around here, but everybody's got the day off tomorrow, so that works for me.
Synonyms
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1.0
Full of activity with many things to do
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3.9
Very worried and acting quickly in a wild, uncontrolled way
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6.6
Full of confusion and disorder among people, politics, or events
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3.9
Happening very quickly with a lot of action
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7.6
Very fast and energetic in a wild, uncontrolled way
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3.8
Full of strong excitement and hurried activity
9
4.1
Full of busy, noisy activity and many people
Antonyms
Compounds
How Busy
Surface Forms
Morphology
hectic = hect + ic
The root 'hect' is not a recognisable standalone English base and the suffix '-ic' does not allow learners to derive the modern sense 'full of busy activity'; the connection is historically mediated and not transparent to average learners.
Etymology
Hectic originally described a long, serious fever and comes from Greek hektikos, meaning 'habitual' or 'continuous'. People later used it to mean 'feverish' — very busy, excited, or agitated — so today hectic describes times or places that are full of busy activity or confusion.