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Definition of: hectic
(hek′tik) adjective
1. Characterized by intense excitement or wild feeling.
2. Characterized by or denoting a wasting habit or condition of body.
3. Pertaining to or affected with hectic fever; consumptive. Also hec′ti·cal. [<F hectique <LL hecticus <Gk. hektikos consumptive <hexis state of the body <echein have]
—hec′ti·cal·ly adverb
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