FEVERISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feverish mean? 

• FEVERISH (adjective)
  The adjective FEVERISH has 3 senses:

1. marked by intense agitation or emotion

2. of or relating to or characterized by fever

3. having or affected by a fever

  Familiarity information: FEVERISH used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEVERISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by intense agitation or emotion

Synonyms:

feverish; hectic

Context example:

worked at a feverish pace

Similar:

agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characterized by fever

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

febrile; feverish

Context example:

a febrile reaction caused by an allergen

Pertainym:

fever (a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection)

Derivation:

feverishness (a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having or affected by a fever

Synonyms:

feverish; feverous

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

Derivation:

feverishness (a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection)

 Context examples 

Too feverish to rest, I rose as soon as day dawned.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

How somebody, lying in my bed, lay saying and doing all this over again, at cross purposes, in a feverish dream all night—the bed a rocking sea that was never still!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Bennet had slept ill, and though up, was very feverish, and not well enough to leave her room.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I hailed the darkness that shut Ireland from my sight, and my pulse beat with a feverish joy when I reflected that I should soon see Geneva.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was plainly a damp, feverish, unhealthy spot.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A few moments of feverish enjoyment were followed by hours of acute suffering.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He spoke now with a feverish energy, the long hands twitching and jerking as he motioned me away.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lawyer listened gloomily; he did not like his friend’s feverish manner.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The road was rugged, but still we seemed to fly over it with a feverish haste.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, that was madness, it had taken John Thornton to arouse.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)