hectic

Meanings

Adjective

  • Very busy with activity and confusion.
  • Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.
  • Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.

Noun

  • A hectic fever.
  • A flush like one produced by such a fever.

Origin

  • From Middle English etik, ethik, from Old French etique, from Medieval Latin *hecticus, from Ancient Greek ἑκτικός ("habitual, hectic, consumptive"), from ἕξις, from ἔχειν.

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