feverish

Speech parts

1. feverish - Adjective

2. feverish - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.

Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.

Hot; sultry.

Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hectic febrile feverous mad restless flaming messianic madder hot wild intense ill burning heated nervous
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Antonyms

siberian hardy arctic bard hale northern
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Phrases with the word

feverish cold feverish delusions be feverish feverish pitch hay-feverish feverish condition

Examples

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world. Jack Kerouac

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. William Ellery Channing

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. Matthew Arnold

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist. Émile Zola

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system,” an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry,” indecision when right was "caution,” and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination.”. Isaac Asimov

Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple-these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat. Vladimir Nabokov

Close letter words and terms

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