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feverish
adjective
1 feverish
Marked by intense agitation or emotion:
— Worked at a feverish pace.
synonym: hectic.
Roget 684:
hasty,
hurried,
brusque;
scrambling,
cursory,
precipitate,
headlong,
furious,
boisterous,
impetuous,
hotheaded;
feverish,
fussy;
pushing.
in haste,
in a hurry
etc.
n.;
in hot haste,
in all haste;
breathless,
pressed for time,
hard pressed,
urgent.
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Roget 821:
feeling
etc.
v.;
sentient;
sensuous;
sensorial,
sensory;
emotive,
emotional;
of feeling,
with feeling
etc.
n..
warm,
quick,
lively,
smart,
strong,
sharp,
acute,
cutting,
piercing,
incisive;
keen,
keen as a razor;
trenchant,
pungent,
racy,
piquant,
poignant,
caustic.
impressive,
deep,
profound,
indelible;
deep felt,
home felt,
heartfelt;
swelling,
soul-stirring,
deep-mouthed,
heart-expanding,
electric,
thrilling,
rapturous,
ecstatic.
earnest,
wistful,
eager,
breathless;
fervent;
fervid;
gushing,
passionate,
warm-hearted,
hearty,
cordial,
sincere,
zealous,
enthusiastic,
glowing,
ardent,
burning,
red-hot,
fiery,
flaming;
boiling over.
pervading,
penetrating,
absorbing;
rabid,
raving,
feverish,
fanatical,
hysterical;
impetuous
etc.
(excitable)
825.
impressed with,
moved with,
touched with,
affected with,
penetrated with,
seized with,
imbued with
etc.
82;
devoured by;
wrought up
etc.
(excited)
824;
struck all of a heap;
rapt;
in a quiver
etc.
n.;
enraptured
etc.
829.
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Roget 824:
excited
etc.
v.;
wrought up,
up the qui vive [Fr.],
astir,
sparkling;
in a quiver
etc.
821,
in a fever,
in a ferment,
in a blaze,
in a state of excitement;
in hysterics;
black in the face,
overwrought,
tense,
taught,
on a razor's edge;
hot,
red-hot,
flushed,
feverish;
all of a twitter,
in a pucker;
with quivering lips,
with tears in one's eyes.
flaming;
boiling over;
ebullient,
seething;
foaming at the mouth;
fuming,
raging,
carried away by passion,
wild,
raving,
frantic,
mad,
distracted,
beside oneself,
out of one's wits,
ready to burst,
bouleverse†,
demoniacal.
lost,
eperdu [Fr.],
tempest-tossed;
haggard;
ready to sink.
stung to the quick,
up,
on one's high ropes.
exciting,
absorbing,
riveting,
distracting
etc.
v.;
impressive,
warm,
glowing,
fervid,
swelling,
imposing,
spirit-stirring,
thrilling;
high-wrought;
soul-stirring,
soul-subduing;
heart-stirring,
heart-swelling,
heart-thrilling;
agonizing
etc.
(painful)
830;
telling,
sensational,
hysterical;
overpowering,
overwhelming;
more than flesh and blood can bear;
yellow.
piquant
etc.
(pungent)
392;
spicy,
appetizing,
provocative,
provoquant†,
tantalizing.
eager to go,
anxious to go,
chafing at the bit.
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Polish: gorączkowy
2 feverish
Of or relating to or characterized by fever.
synonym: febrile.
Roget 825:
excitable,
easily excited,
in an excitable state;
high-strung;
irritable
etc.
(irascible)
901;
impatient,
intolerant.
feverish,
febrile,
hysterical;
delirious,
mad,
moody,
maggoty-headed.
unquiet,
mercurial,
electric,
galvanic,
hasty,
hurried,
restless,
fidgety,
fussy;
chafing
etc.
v..
startlish†,
mettlesome,
high-mettled†,
skittish.
vehement,
demonstrative,
violent,
wild,
furious,
fierce,
fiery,
hot-headed,
madcap.
overzealous,
enthusiastic,
impassioned,
fanatical;
rabid
etc.
(eager)
865.
rampant,
clamorous,
uproarious,
turbulent,
tempestuous,
tumultuary†,
boisterous.
impulsive,
impetuous,
passionate;
uncontrolled,
uncontrollable;
ungovernable,
irrepressible,
stanchless†,
inextinguishable,
burning,
simmering,
volcanic,
ready to burst forth,
volatile.
excited,
exciting
etc.
824.
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Dutch: febriel
Polish: gorączkowy
3 feverish
Having or affected by a fever.
synonym: feverous.
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