frantically

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   In a frantic manner.

   He searched frantically for his passport before the flight.

2. 2
   adv

   Extremely; terribly.

   1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados "Oh yes; come in, Mr Carrados," she exclaimed graciously. "We are not quite strangers, you know. You found out something for Aunt Pigs; I forget what, but she was most frantically impressed."

3. 3
   adv

   in an uncontrolled manner

Etymology

From earlier franticly, equivalent to frantic + -ally.