Fervid

Definitions: Fervid

Fervid

Adjective

1. Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair".

2. Extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope.

Date "fervid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Fervid \Fer"vid\, adjective. [Latin expression fervidus, from fervere. See Fervent.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Fervid

Synonyms: ardent (adj), burning(a) (adj), fervent (adj), fiery (adj), impassioned (adj), perfervid (adj), torrid (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitation	Exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting; Verb: impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling; high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing; (painful); telling, sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh and blood can bear; yellow.
Feeling	Earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over.
Heat	Adjective: hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.
Worship	Adjective: worshipping;Verb: devout, devotional, reverent, pure, solemn; fervid; (heartfelt).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fervid

English words defined with "fervid": fervent, fierce ♦ In hot water ♦ tearing, trigger-happy ♦ vehement, violent ♦ white-hot. (references)

Etymologies containing "fervid": Perfervid. (references)

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	Amative; amatory; amorous; aphrodisiac; bawdy; blue; carnal; concupiscent; dirty; earthy; erogenous; fervid; filthy; fleshly; hot; impassioned; kinky; lascivious; lecherous; lewd; obscene; off-color; purple; prurient; raunchy; raw; romantic; rousing; sala.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Fervid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fervid" is used about 9 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%	9	117,287

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.

Language		Translations for "fervid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zjarrtë (ardent, fervent, fiery, flaming, flamy, heated, hot, hot-blooded, inflammatory, passional, passionate, perfervid, sultry, volcanic, vulcanic, warm, warm blooded), i përvëluar (scalded). (various references)

Arabic		‏متحمس (advocate, ardent, ardent supporter, eager, eagerly intent, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fiery, hot, hothead, impassioned, keen, passionate, strenuous, warm, zealot, zealous). (various references)

Bulgarian		горещ (aglow, burning, devout, fervent, fiery, flaming, high-spirited, hot, intense, scorching, strong, thermal, torrid). (various references)

Czech		vřelý (boiling, heartfelt, hearty, piping hot, warm). (various references)

Farsi		مشتاق (Agog, Anxious, Avid, Desirous, Eager, Earnest, Enthusiast, Enthusiastic, Fond, Hippie, Hungry, Keen, Perfervid, Raring, Solicitous, Studious, Thirsty, Wilful, Wishful, Wistful), سوزان (Ablaze, Acrimonious, Alight, Ardent, Perfervid, Scathing, Torrid). (various references)

German		glühende (glowingly). (various references)

Greek		διάπυροσ (passionate). (various references)

Hebrew		לו�"ט (aglow, burning, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, incandescent, torrid), � ל�"ב (animated, ardent, devotee, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, excited, fervent, fiery, impassioned, keen, zealous). (various references)

Hungarian		heves (acute, boisterous, explosive, fervent, fulmination, heady, heated, hot, hot-tempered, impetuous, intense, keen, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, poignant, rampageous, sanguine, short tempered, snoring, to run the gauntlet of adverse criticism, vehement, warm), forró (boiling, burning, ebullient, fervent, heated, hot, perfervid, scalding, torrid). (various references)

Italian		fervido (ardent, fervent), fervente (ardent, devout, fervent). (various references)

Pig Latin		ervidfay

Portuguese		férvido, ardentemente (ardently). (various references)

Romanian		efervescent (boiling, effervescent, seething), înfocat (ardent, bright, eager, enthusiastic, fiery, heated, hectic, hot, hot stuff, passionate, proud, red-hot). (various references)

Russian		горячий (ardent, boiling hot, burning, earnest, fervent, fiery, full of beans, glowing, heady, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, mettled, red-hot, vehement, warm blooded). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		strasni, žarki (ardent, bright, fervent, hot, torrid, tropic, zealous). (various references)

Spanish		fervoroso (earnest, fervent, passionate, strong, zestful), vehemente (ardent, eager, fiery, hot, intense, vehement), ardiente (ablaze, afire, aflame, ardent, boiling hot, burning, fervent, fiery, gloweringly, glowing, hot, incandescent, lurid, passionate, perfervid, scorching, warm), apasionado (amative, enthusiast, fervent, hot, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passionate, sultry, warm blooded). (various references)

Swedish		glödande (aglow, burning, fervent, fiery, flaming, glowing, incandescent, live, perfervid, white hot). (various references)

Ukranian		пристрасний (affectionate, ardent, hot-blooded, one sided, passional, passionate, sultry, warm), палаючий (ablaze, aflame, ardent, burning, flagrant, flaming, glowing, lurid). (various references)

Vietnamese		tha thiết; sôi sục (fervent), nhiệt th� nh (fervent, hot-blooded), nóng bỏng n�"ng nhiệt (fervent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fervidus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fervid": fervidly, fervidness, fervidnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "fervid": perfervid. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fervid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: favi, fertid, feruid, ferv, fervix, fervon, furid. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fervid" (pronounced fer"vud)
3	-v u d	avid, livid, vivid.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-r-v"
	-1 letter: diver, drive, fired, fiver, fried, rived.
	-2 letters: defi, dire, dive, fire, five, ired, reif, ride, rife, rive, vide, vied, vier.
	-3 letters: dev, die, fed, fer, fid, fie, fir, ire, red, ref, rei, rev, rid, rif, vie.
	-4 letters: de, ed, ef, er, id, if, re.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-r-v"
	+2 letters: fervidly, frivoled, verified.
	+3 letters: devitrify, diversify, frivolled, perfervid, verbified, versified, vitrified.
	+4 letters: disfavored, driveshaft, federative, fervidness, overfilled, overfished, reverified, revivified, unverified, viewfinder.
	+5 letters: deformative, devitrified, devitrifies, diversified, diversifier, diversifies, driveshafts, overfeeding, overfunding, overrefined, viewfinders, vociferated.
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