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adjective

having fever.

pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling fever: a feverish excitement.

excited, restless, or uncontrolled, as if from fever.

having a tendency to produce fever.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English feverisch. See fever, -ish¹

Related forms

fe·ver·ish·ly, adverb

fe·ver·ish·ness, noun

non·fe·ver·ish, adjective

non·fe·ver·ish·ly, adverb

non·fe·ver·ish·ness, noun

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pseu·do·fe·ver·ish, adjective

pseu·do·fe·ver·ish·ly, adverb

un·fe·ver·ish, adjective

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Can be confused: fervent, fever, feverish.

Synonyms
3. frenzied, impatient, fervent, wrought-up.

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Example Sentences

Sam was more hardhearted, yet his feverish materialism created more jobs.

Taylor seems an unlikely host to feverish experimentation.

His removal ushered in a less feverish approach to high-speed rail construction.

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Sam was more hardhearted, yet his feverish materialism created more jobs.

Taylor seems an unlikely host to feverish experimentation.

His removal ushered in a less feverish approach to high-speed rail construction.

Northeast, land is changing hands at a feverish pace.

It's rare to see such a feverish level of anticipation for a non-Apple smartphone.

But when she became feverish and confused, her family took her to another hospital.

So there's some feverish catching up that needs to be done.

Feverish visitors from the mainland can even pay for their shavings in their own currency, the yuan.

Humankind's feverish attachment to gold shouldn't have survived the modern world.

His feverish solving skills leave rivals-and us-dumbstruck.

And some say they were unaware that their feverish clicks on a home computer may have been against the law.

We're not here to help our students make their minds resemble their laptops, fast and feverish.

It is, after all, only in the past few weeks that the draft-Christie campaign reached a feverish temperature.

The music reaches a feverish pitch when several performers emerge to announce the actual spirit possession ceremony.

In their latest work, they verified that the blend of chemicals makes the lab animals feverish as well.

Everyone danced to a feverish pitch and the normally reserved audience went wild.

The spiders can inflict a painful bite that is often accompanied by feverish symptoms.

Gorrie also sought to improve the survival rate of his feverish patients by cooling them down.

Selick's feverish expressionism and the film's helter-skelter editing.

After many feverish hours, he made the final deductive leap.

His performance gives a show that often seems too coldly contrived for its own good a feverish emotional center.

From there, her infiltration was a feat of feverish social engineering.

The bill fueled a feverish lobbying battle between business and labor.

The back-to-school rush has reached a feverish pitch here and across the region.

Their reactions are rarely feverish or side-splitting.

She screeches and fluffs up her feathers, throws things and breaks television sets, but only succeeds in being feverish.

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World English Dictionary

feverish or feverous (ˈfiːvərɪʃ)

—*adj*
1.	suffering from fever, esp a slight fever
2.	in a state of restless excitement
3.	of, relating to, caused by, or causing fever

feverous or feverous

—*adj*

'feverishly or feverous

—*adv*

'feverously or feverous

—*adv*

'feverishness or feverous

—n

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Word Origin & History

feverish

excited, 1630s; having symptoms of fever, 1640s, from fever + -ish. Earlier in same sense was feverous (late 14c.). Related: Feverishly.

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Medical Dictionary

feverish fe·ver·ish (fē'vər-ĭsh)
adj.

Having a fever.
Relating to or resembling a fever.
Causing or tending to cause a fever.

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