Usually means: Very busy, full of activity.
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  1. hectic: Merriam-Webster
  2. hectic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hectic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hectic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hectic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hectic, hectic: Wordnik
  7. hectic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hectic: Wiktionary
  9. hectic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hectic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hectic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hectic: Dictionary.com
  13. hectic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hectic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hectic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hectic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hectic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hectic: Rhymezone
  19. hectic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hectic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hectic: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hectic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hectic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. hectic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hectic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hectic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HECTIC: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hectic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hectic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hectically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (figurative) Very busy with activity and confusion.
adjective:  (obsolete) Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.
adjective:  (obsolete) Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.
noun:  A hectic fever.
noun:  A flush like one produced by such a fever.

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