HECTICALLY Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

hectically

adverb

as in frantically

in a confused and reckless manner a moth kept banging hectically against the screen, seeking the light on the other side

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Recent Examples of hectically When Grace first awakens on his ship, the film cuts hectically around, above, and below him, as if to approximate his mental and physical disorientation. —

Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026 Tanner plunges into these ostentatiously autobiographical roles, heedlessly, hectically and without a psychiatric net. —

Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026 The old Helena would have mumbled something under her breath, hectically pressed the call button a few more times, and fled the situation as quickly as possible. —

Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025

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Adverb

Then seconds later the controller frantically called for the fire truck to stop.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
In the hours after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was shot to death inside the bedroom of his mountaintop home, an inner circle of people suspected of being involved in the assassination plot in South Florida and in Port-au-Prince were frantically trying to steer events in their favor.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026