hectic

About 1.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Very 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

2. adjective Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.

   hectic fever

3. adjective Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.
4. noun A hectic fever.
5. noun A flush like one produced by such a fever.

Similar words

agitated feverish busy intense turbulent strenuous tumultuous tight frenzied intensive

Often followed by

and fever days pace schedule day life flush activity

Word family

hectically