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Fevered

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adj. Affected by a fever; feverish.

adj. heated, impassioned

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Highly excited.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Suffering from fever; feverish; hence, heated; perturbed; disordered: as, a fevered imagination.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. highly excited

Word Usage

"A more open market for college admissions, no matter how fevered, is still fairer than the old system, which petered out in the mid-1960s, whereby Exeter's headmaster could earmark a few dozen of each year's seniors for admission to Harvard."

Equivalent

excited

Form

unfevered

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

feverish

Verb Stem

fever

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

feverish delirious febrile maniacal morbid sleepless hectic ecstatic uncontrollable wakeful