fevered
English
Etymology
Adjective
fevered (comparative more fevered, superlative most fevered)
- Affected by a fever; feverish.
- Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
- 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman[1]:
- Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
- 2010, Noam Chomsky, The Iranian threat, Z Magazine, vol 23, number 7:
- To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.
Derived terms
Translations
affected by fever
impassioned
Verb
fevered
- simple past and past participle of fever