Hectic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HECTIC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a hectic fever
• a hectic fever or flush.
• Hectic fever.
• hectic fever or flush
ADJECTIVE:
• habitual, esp. in wasting diseases, feverish
• full of incessant or frantic activity
• relating to or affected by a regularly recurrent fever typically accompanying tuberculosis, with flushed cheeks and hot, dry skin.
• rushed or busy
• Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.
• In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.
• marked by intense agitation or emotion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• filled with turmoil
• a fever accompanied by flushed cheeks

Words related to HECTIC

hectical15 hectically20 hecticly18 hectics14

Words that contain HECTIC

hectics14 hectical15 hecticly18 cachectic20 cathectic18 hectically20 cachectical22

How to use HECTIC in a sentence

• While she talked, the hectic spots came out again on her cheeks.
• The foreman of the jury looked a trifle pinched, though his cheeks bore two spots of hectic color.
• A slight hectic flush increased the brilliancy of her eyes, which had now acquired that ominous lustre peculiar to persons in a decline.
• I thought he looked very tired and a trifle hectic.
• The weather was cold and the sick lady had the dreadful chills that accompany the hectic fever of consumption.
• After the first hectic flush of dawn there is nothing so sane and sweet and commonplace as morning.
• His eyes had a wild and haggard earnestness, and a vivid hectic flush on either cheek told how extreme was his emotion.
• Besides, why not allow the man a healthy curiosity? He was pretty closely connected with a hectic part of your life, my dear.
• A hectic flush superseded the pallor, and the delusion was gone.
• He began to cough, and the hectic flush told his lungs were involved.
• The days that ensued were full of feverish and hectic motion.
• It is there to see that the orchestra does its job and to put the fear of a hectic hereafter into the man who is out of step with his fellow-conspirators.
• People were exhausted socially from their hectic summer and Panic stalked forth from behind the festival trappings where it had lain hidden.
• The purely human virtues still nourished there, it seemed to Milly, in their primal bloom, while they had become somewhat faded in the more hectic air of the Atlantic seaboard.
• Not the Agnes Blakiston I knew, but another Agnes Blakiston, perhaps, was exerting a temporary dominance, a hectic, craven, and hateful control.
• As a rapid fever and a consuming hectic are alike fatal to our natural health, so are flagrant immorality and torpid indolence to our moral well-being.
• The dullness of her eyes gave place to a sheen of excitement, and her perfect cheeks assumed a faint, hectic flush.
• Since he recognized that it could avail him nothing to strip, he came on guard fully dressed, two hectic spots above the cheek-bones burning on his otherwise grey face.
• Very often the stories she sees on the screen are largely seasoned with material that stirs the imagination and emotions in a hectic sexual way.
• A hectic flush alternated on her cheeks with deathly pallor, and the smile, which occasionally played around her lips, seemed but a painful expression of mental suffering.
• While she whirled with Byron in a hectic frenzy of love and fashion, he had stayed at home in an indulgence bordering on cynicism, and occupied his solitude with reading.
• Her disease had increased rapidly, and the signs of its ravages were painfully manifest in her sunken eye, her hectic cheek, her hollow voice, her continual cough.
• Potts observed the pale face and the hectic, burning eyes with a frowning disapproval.
• Politics were in a hectic state, and people grumbled.
• Her eyes were suspiciously bright, her cheeks now shone with their most crimson hectic.
• Decima, with her wondrous beauty, and the hectic on her cheeks again.
• No, not even could he be deceived, or entertain the faintest false hope, though the cough became stilled, and the brilliant hectic of reaction shone on her cheeks.
• He was almost bald save for some long, thin, gray locks that hung about his huge ears, his cheeks had a hectic color and his skull was yellow.

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