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Definition: Feverishly |
FeverishlyAdverb1. In a feverish manner; "she worked feverishly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "feverishly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
Crosswords: Feverishly |
| English words defined with "feverishly": Feverously. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "feverishly": Feverously. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Children ran feverishly about. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Feverishly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Feverishly" is used about 94 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 94 | 33,845 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "feverishly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fieberhafte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lázasan (hectically, to mouse), hevesen (acutely, ardently, boisterously, explosively, fervently, fervidly, heatedly, keenly, mightily, rampageously, scone-hot, severely, strongly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | aprit-apritan (run feverishly, run pell mell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | everishlyfay febricitante. (various references) febril (febrile, fevered, feverish, impassioned), încordat (concentrated, hard, intensive, intent, parlous, strained, strenuous, strenuously, tense). (various references) febrilmente (feverously, hectically). (various references) гарячково, збуджено (excitedly, heatedly, hot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Feverishly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fevershly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "feverishly" (pronounced fe"veri'shlē) |
| 4 | -i' sh l ē | bullishly, foolishly, sheepishly. |
| 3 | -sh l ē | bearishly, devilishly, especially, freshly, girlishly, harshly, lavishly, lushly, slavishly, sluggishly, stylishly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-i-l-r-s-v-y" | |
-2 letters: feverish, fleshier, shelvier. | |
-3 letters: ferlies, fishery, fisheye, flesher, freshly, heifers, herself, leviers, livyers, refiles, reflies, reliefs, relives, reviles, servile, sheerly, shelver, shivery, shrieve, shrivel, silvery, veilers, versify. | |
-4 letters: eerily, elfish, elvers, elvish, ervils, eviler, eyries, ferlie, fevers, filers, fisher, fivers, fleers, fleshy, fliers, flyers, freely, frisee, heifer, helves, heresy, hirsel, hirsle, levers, levier. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 76 65 72 69 73 68 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . ...- . .-. .. ... .... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101000 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e v e r i s h l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0076 0065 0072 0069 0073 0068 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40718871847585747891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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