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- Dictionaryfervid/ˈfəːvɪd/
adjective
- 1. intensely enthusiastic or passionate, especially to an excessive degree: "his fervid protestations of love"
- 2. hot, burning, or glowing. literary
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Fervid means very hot, burning, or marked by intense feeling. Learn the origin, synonyms, examples, and related words of fervid from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Fervid means heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc. or burning or glowing. See the origin, examples and related words of fervid.
Fervid can be used to describe something that is physically hot such as “a fervid day in August,” but it is more often used to describe heated emotions like anger, love, or desire. When passions and emotions run wild, you should expect to hear some fervid language thrown about.
Fervid means hot, glowing, or impassioned. It comes from the Latin word fervidus, meaning boiling. See examples, synonyms, and word origin of fervid.
Fervid means having or expressing great depth of feeling, or having a notably high temperature. Find synonyms, antonyms, related words, and example sentences for fervid on Merriam-Webster Thesaurus.
- Some common synonyms of fervid are ardent, fervent, impassioned, passionate, and perfervid. While all these words mean "showing intense feeling," f...
- The words ardent and fervid are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, ardent implies an intense degree of zeal, devotion, or enthusiasm....
- While the synonyms fervent and fervid are close in meaning, fervent stresses sincerity and steadiness of emotional warmth or zeal. // fervent good...
- The meanings of impassioned and fervid largely overlap; however, impassioned implies warmth and intensity without violence and suggests fluent verb...
- While in some cases nearly identical to fervid, passionate implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful diffusion of emotion. // a passi...
- In some situations, the words perfervid and fervid are roughly equivalent. However, perfervid implies the expression of exaggerated or overwrought...
Fervid means feeling something too strongly or showing feelings that are too strong. It is a formal, often disapproving adjective. See examples, pronunciation, synonyms and word origin.
Fervid means marked by great passion or zeal, or extremely hot or burning. Find the origin, pronunciation, and translations of fervid, as well as related words and examples.
