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Definition: Febrile |
FebrileAdjective1. Of or relating to or characterized by fever; "a febrile reaction caused by an allergen". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "febrile" was first used: 1651. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Pertaining to or characterized by fever. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: FebrileSynonym: feverish (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: afebrile (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-headed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Febrile |
| English words defined with "febrile": Defervescency ♦ fever blister, feverish, flu ♦ grippe ♦ influenza ♦ scarlet fever, spotted fever, sweating sickness ♦ Yellow fever. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "febrile": Bartonella Infections ♦ Colorado Tick Fever ♦ Dengue Virus ♦ Fructose-1,6-Diphosphatase Deficiency ♦ Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Crimean-Congo, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome ♦ Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ♦ Malaria, Falciparum, Malaria, Vivax, Mengovirus ♦ pestis bubonica, Phlebotomus Fever, Pneumonia, Pneumococcal, Postpericardiotomy Syndrome ♦ rat-bite fever ♦ Sandfly Fever Group Viruses, Still's Disease, Adult-Onset ♦ Theileriasis ♦ Vesicular Exanthema of Swine Virus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "febrile": Febricitate. (references) |
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 | First recognized in the 1930s, Venezuelan Encephalitis has been responsible for numerous outbreaks of febrile illnesses and encephalitis involving thousands of humans and hundreds of thousands of equines, primarily in tropical America.Credit: CDC. |  | This erythrocyte contains new merozoites, which when released will develop into male and female gametocytes. P. malariae causes quartan malaria producing febrile paroxysms at 72 hour intervals.Credit: CDC. |
 | P. malariae, a quartan malaria, produces febrile paroxysms on a 72 hour cycle. Relapses can sometimes occur half a century after being infected.Credit: CDC. |  | P. malariae, a quartan malaria, produces febrile paroxysms on a 72 hour cycle. Relapses can sometimes occur half a century after being infected.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | There is no evidence that febrile seizures cause brain damage. (references) | |
This medication may lower the risk of having another febrile seizure. (references) | ||
Immunocompetent persons may experience acute febrile gastroenteritis. (references) | ||
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| "Febrile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Febrile" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "febrile": Febrile movement. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
febrile seizure | 86 |
febrile convulsion | 19 |
febrile | 16 |
febrile neutropenia | 15 |
febrile illness | 9 |
bacterial febrile fever infection serious | 5 |
acute febrile illness | 3 |
febrile seizure in child | 3 |
febrile fever | 2 |
acute dermatosis febrile neutrophilic | 2 |
febrile seizure child | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "febrile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në ethe, i ethshëm (feverish, furious, hectic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حمي متعلق بالحمى (pyretic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свързан с треска, трескав (agog, aguey, aguish, fevered, feverish, hectic, pyretic, shivery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zpùsobený horeèkou. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | febril. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | febriel (feverish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fébrile (fever, feverish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fiebrig (feverish, shivery), fiebernd (fevered, feverish, had a temperature), febril. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυρετώδησ (feverish, hectic), πυρετικόσ (feverish, pyretic), εμπύρετοσ (feverish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ק"חת י (ardent, fervent, feverish, hectic, passionate), צמרמר (feverish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lázas (aguish, fevered, feverish, to be in a fever, to fever, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity), láz-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | febbrile (aguish, feverish, hectic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 熱病 (febrile disease, fever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねつびょう (febrile disease, fever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chiassagh (feverish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ebrilefay febril (aguish, February, feverish, hectic), antipirético (antipyretic). (various references) febril (fevered, feverish, feverishly, impassioned). (various references) лихорадочный (fevered, feverish, frenetic, hectic, pyretic, pyrexial). (various references) febrilan, grozničav (feverish, hectic). (various references) febril (aguish, feverish, feverous, hectic). (various references) feberaktig (fevered, feverish, feverous). (various references) ซึ่งเป็นไข้. (various references) hummalı (frantic, frenetic, with fever), heyecanlı (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, crazed, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excitable, excited, exciting, feverish, glowing, gone, gripping, happy, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a lather, inspired, nail biting, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, spirited, stormy, thrilling, tiptoe, vibrant, warm, wrought up, zealous), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, racy, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous). (various references) горячковий, пропасний (feverous, pyretic). (various references) sốt (fevered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | febris. (various references) |
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Words ending with "febrile": afebrile. (additional references) | |
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"Febrile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afebrile, fabile, Fabrielis, Fairisle, Fairnilee, febile, febille, febril, febrilely, febrille, febru, Febry, ferale, ferile, Fernilee, fervile, Fiorile, Fiorillo, Futrelle, Gebirge, Jebreel, Jebril. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "febrile" (pronounced 'Fe"brile'): Antifebrile. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-f-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: belief, belier, ferlie, liefer, refile, relief. | |
-2 letters: belie, birle, brief, fiber, fibre, filer, fleer, flier, liber, lifer, rebel, refel, rifle. | |
-3 letters: beef, beer, bier, bile, birl, bree, brie, feel, fere, file, fire, flee, free, leer, lief, lier, life, lire, reef, reel, reif, riel, rife, rile. | |
-4 letters: bee, bel, eel, elf, ere, fee, fer, fib. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-f-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: afebrile, balefire, belfried, belfries, fireable. | |
+2 letters: balefires, briefless, inferable. | |
+3 letters: filterable, fireballer, inferrible, pilferable, refillable, umbellifer, verifiable. | |
+4 letters: beautifuler, beflowering, butterflied, butterflies, certifiable, fireballers, forfeitable, irrefutable, perfectible, rectifiable, refrangible, umbellifers, wolfberries. | |
+5 letters: defibrillate, fertilizable, fiberglassed, fiberglasses, fibreglasses, filibustered, filibusterer, forcibleness, insufferable, irreformable, irrefragable, unverifiable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 62 72 69 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . -... .-. .. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01100010 01110010 01101001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e b r i l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0062 0072 0069 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40716884757871 |
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