Feverish

Definitions: Feverish

Feverish

Adjective

1. Marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace".

2. Of or relating to or characterized by fever; "a febrile reaction caused by an allergen".

3. Having or affected by a fever.

Date "feverish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Feverish

Synonyms: febrile (adj), feverous (adj), hectic (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.
Excitation	Adjective: excited; Verb: wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver; 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.
Feeling	Pervading, penetrating, absorbing; rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical; impetuous; (excitable).
Haste	Adjective: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Feverish

English words defined with "feverish": canicola fever, convulse ♦ eczema herpeticum ♦ Febriculose, feverishly, Fevery ♦ hectic ♦ Pyrexical ♦ slash ♦ thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss. (references)

Specialty definitions using "feverish": Affrighted ♦ Path. (references)

Etymologies containing "feverish": Antipyresis ♦ Fevery ♦ Pyrexia. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish (reference) The comet is coming! : The feverish legacy of Mr. Halley (reference) The Theory of Feverish Diseases and Its Clinical Applications (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Feverish (reference) Feverish [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Harlem's people at play--a feverish pursuit of happiness.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
William Ellery Channing	All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The cortege made its way, with a feverish slowness, from the house of death, along the boulevards as far as the Bastille.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	A feverish quickening of his pulses followed and a din of meaningless words drove his reasoned thoughts hither and thither confusedly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	To every theory of society or government, whether the offspring of feverish ambition or of morbid enthusiasm, calculated to dissolve the bonds of law and affection which unite us, I shall interpose a ready and stern resistance.
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"Feverish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.06% of the time. "Feverish" is used about 171 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)	90.06%	154	25,326
Lexical Verb (base form)	8.19%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.75%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	171	N/A

Expressions using "feverish": be feverish ♦ feverish chill ♦ feverish hectic ♦ very feverish. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "feverish": feverish-looking.
	Ending with "feverish": hay-feverish.
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Language		Translations for "feverish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		koorsig. (various references)

Albanian		me temperaturë, i ethshëm (febrile, furious, hectic), i eksistuar (excited, fevered, horny). (various references)

Arabic		‏محموم (hectic, shivery), ‏حمي (malaria), ‏حمى (advocate, anneal, broil, buckler, bulwark, conserve, cover, defend, diet, fence, fever, guard, haven, heat, overheating, patronize, protect, safeguard, shelter, stove, superheat, vindicate, warm up), ‏شديد الإنفعال (violent). (various references)

Bulgarian		трескав (agog, aguey, aguish, febrile, fevered, hectic, pyretic, shivery), нездрав (insalubrious, morbid, noisome, sallow, unhealthy, unsound). (various references)

Chinese		狂热 (Fanatic, Fanatical, frantic, frenetic, Rabid). (various references)

Czech		zimnièný (aguish), horeèný (frenetic, frenzied, hectic). (various references)

Dutch		koortsig, koortsachtig. (various references)

Esperanto		febra. (various references)

Finnish		kuumeinen. (various references)

French		fiévreux (febrile), fébrile (febrile, fever). (various references)

German		fieberhaft (febrile), fiebrig (febrile, shivery). (various references)

Greek		πυρετώδησ (febrile, hectic), πυρετικόσ (febrile, pyretic), εμπύρετοσ (febrile). (various references)

Hebrew		קו�"ח, ק�"חת� י (ardent, febrile, fervent, hectic, passionate), צמרמר (febrile). (various references)

Hungarian		lázas (aguish, febrile, fevered, to be in a fever, to fever, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity). (various references)

Indonesian		greges, gerah (hot, sick, stifling hot sensation, stiflingly hot, sultry), demam (ague, aguish, cold, fad, fever). (various references)

Italian		febbrile (aguish, febrile, hectic), febbricitante (had a temperature), convulso (convulsion, convulsive, fit, jerky, paroxysm, twitch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		熱気 (enthusiasm, heat, hot air), 熱感 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ねつか�", ねつけ (miniature carving attached to the end of a cord hanging from a pouch, netsuke). (various references)

Manx		chiassagh (febrile). (various references)

Norwegian		febrilsk. (various references)

Pig Latin		everishfay

Portuguese		febril (aguish, febrile, February, hectic). (various references)

Romanian		febril (febrile, fevered, feverishly, impassioned), subfebril, emoţionat (excited, excitedly, soulful, touched, upset), bântuit de friguri, agitat (agitated, agog, angry, billowy, choppy, excited, excitedly, fevered, fractious, fretful, fussy, hectic, irritated, nervous, restless, snappish, tempestuous, unsettled). (various references)

Russian		лихорадочный (febrile, fevered, frenetic, hectic, pyretic, pyrexial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		grozničav (febrile, hectic). (various references)

Spanish		afiebrado. (various references)

Swedish		febrig (feverous). (various references)

Thai		เป็นไข้, ตื่นเต้น (electric, flip, lose one's cool). (various references)

Turkish		telaşlı (bustling, discomposedly, disconcerted, disconcerting, excitable, excited, flurried, fussy, hectic, hurried, uptight), heyecanlı (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, crazed, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excitable, excited, exciting, febrile, 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, febrile, fervent, fevered, 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), ateşi olan, ateş yapan. (various references)

Ukranian		гарячковий (delirious, feverous, hectic, pyretic), нездоровий (ailing, decadent, indisposed, insalubrious, noisome, noxious, off color, off colour, sickly, unfit, unsound, unwell, unwholesome, useless), збуджений (ablaze, agitated, animate, astir, excited, heated, hot, intoxicate, irritated, nervy, overwrought, spasmodic, tense, tumultuous, warm, wrought). (various references)

Vietnamese		sôi nổi (ardent, ardently, bean, bean-fed, effervescent, fiery, hectic, hot-blooded, hot-spririted, keen, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, rousing, vehement), có triệu chứng sốt; hơi sốt gây sốt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fervens, fervente, ferventes, ferventis, ferverunt, fervet. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "feverish": feverishly, feverishness, feverishnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Feverish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beaverish, deveriis, evenish, ferverish, feverack, revarnish, Severnich. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "feverish" (pronounced 'Fe"ver*ish'): Abolish, Accomplish, Admonish, Affamish, Aguish, Alish, Alumish, Amateurish, Anchoretish, Animalish, Apish, Arrish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Babyish, Babylonish, Baddish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Batfish, Bearish, Beauish, Bish, Bitterish, Blackish, Blandish, Blindfish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarfish, Boarish, Bobbish, Bogglish, Boobyish, Bookish, Boorish, Borough-English, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brigandish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-i-r-s-v"
	-1 letter: heifers, shrieve.
	-2 letters: fevers, fisher, fivers, frisee, heifer, reives, revise, sherif, shiver, shrive.
	-3 letters: feres, fever, fires, fiver, fives, frees, fresh, fries, frise, heirs, heres, hires, hives, reefs, reifs, reive, rives, serif, serve, sever, sheer, shier, shire, shive, sieve, siree, siver, veers, verse, viers, vires.
	-4 letters: ever, eves, fees, fehs, fere, fire, firs, fish.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-h-i-r-s-v"
	+2 letters: feverishly, overfished, overfishes.
	+4 letters: feverishness, silverfishes.
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