English-Finnish translations for hectic

• hektinen
  Meidän on todellakin tehtävä työmme mahdollisimman nopeasti, koska sulautumisten maailma on varsin hektinen. We badly need to do our job as quickly as possible, for it is indeed quite hectic in merger country.
• kiihkeä
• kuumeinen

Definition of hectic

• Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin
• Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever
• Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish
• A hectic fever
• A flush like one produced by such a fever

Examples

• hectic fever
• The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds

Related words

• cachectic
• hectically
• hecticness