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FERVID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fervid mean?
• FERVID (adjective)
The adjective FERVID has 2 senses:
1. characterized by intense emotion
2. (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing
Familiarity information: FERVID used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by intense emotion
Synonyms:
ardent; fervent; fervid; fiery; impassioned; perfervid; torrid
Context example:
a torrid love affair
Similar:
passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)
Derivation:
fervidness (feelings of great warmth and intensity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing
Synonyms:
fervent; fervid
Context example:
set out...when the fervid heat subsides
Similar:
hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
Domain usage:
archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)
Context examples
In the morning Henry was aroused by fervid blasphemy that proceeded from the mouth of Bill.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:—"Day its fervid fires had wasted," and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Has a girl of fourteen a heart large enough, vigorous enough, to hold the swelling spring of pure, full, fervid eloquence?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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