hectic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite marked by intense agitation or emotion
    feverish.
    • worked at a feverish pace

WordNet

Hec"tic adjective
Etymology
F. hectique, Gr. habitual, consumptive, fr. habit, a habit of body or mind, fr. to have; akin to Skr. sah to overpower, endure; cf. AS. sige, sigor, victory, G. sieg, Goth. sigis. Cf. Scheme.
Definitions
  1. Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.
  2. In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.
Hec"tic noun
Definitions
  1. (Med.) Hectic fever.
  2. A hectic flush.
    It is no living hue, but a strange hectic. Byron.

Webster 1913