Synonyms for frantically
fran·ti·cal·ly

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1. madly, franticallyadverb

   in an uncontrolled manner

   "she fought back madly"

   Synonyms:
   devilishly, dementedly, insanely, madly, deucedly, deadly, crazily

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1. List of paraphrases for "frantically":

   desperately

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1. The Van Valkenburghs ':

   I jumped down frantically searching, a man stopped to help me when he saw a sinkhole at the side of the road.

2. Paul Reville:

   In this situation, we don't simply want to frantically struggle to restore the status quo because the status quo wasn't operating at an effective level and certainly wasn't serving all of our children fairly.

3. Jackson Fuqua:

   I saw a big trail of blood from the water to where the man was laying down on a beach towel. There were a lot of EMS workers all around him and they were frantically trying to help him and work to close the wounds he had.

4. Frank A. Clark:

   Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

5. Steve Brusatte:

   When we looked closely at them, we could see the individual digits, impressions of the fingers and toes and the claws. Really, it was in a few minutes that we figured it out, just right place at the right time and it came together. We frantically started taking a lot of photos, measurements and notes because it was getting dark and the tide was coming in.