febrile

Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hot flushed feverish burning heated fever tense excited energetic worried anxious uneasy fearful frightened fiery

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Antonyms

afebrile siberian arctic northern iceman stone-cold

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Phrases with the word

febrile disease febrile illness acute febrile vasculitic syndrome acute febrile illness acute contagious febrile disease acute febrile bacterial disease

Anagrams

brelfie ferbile briefle

Examples

To the young, what can be more disturbing, what more unsettling and tantalizing, than the play of vague suspicions? The fancy, ceasing to wander in the void, concentrates upon a definite aim, and luxuriates in the febrile pleasures of the chase. Stefan Zweig

The racket was coming over what used to be our public radio station, WAMC out of Albany, but the familiar reassuring voices of normality were long gone. Some febrile evangelist was railing from the Book of Revelation. James Howard Kunstler

a febrile reaction caused by an allergen Source: Internet

Consideration of a differential diagnosis is required when a patient presents with unexplained febrile illness, extreme headache, encephalitis or meningitis. Source: Internet

How, for example, do you maintain a two-metre safe space between you and your febrile, yet fearsomely clingy two-year-old? Source: Internet

Angry and humiliated, Riley enlists at the nearest recruiting station during the febrile first weeks of the First World War and ships for France. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

febrifuge febrifugine febrigenic febrile disease febrile illness febrile seizure