Feverish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a fever.
  • adj. Having a fever or symptoms characteristic of a fever.
  • adj. Causing or tending to cause fever.
  • adj. Marked by intense agitation, emotion, or activity: worked at a feverish pace.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. In the state of having a fever, to have an elevated body temperature.
  • adj. filled with excess energy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst.
  • adj. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever.
  • adj. Hot; sultry.
  • adj. Disordered as by fever; excited; restless.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having fever, especially a slight degree of fever: as, the patient is feverish.
  • Indicating or characteristic of fever: as, feverish symptoms.
  • Having a tendency to produce fever: as, feverish food.
  • Morbidly eager; unduly ardent: as, a feverish craving for notoriety or fame.
  • Excited and fitful; in a state resembling fever; now hot, now cold; characterized by sudden change or rapid fluctuations: as, a feverish state of the money market.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of or relating to or characterized by fever
  • adj. having or affected by a fever
  • adj. marked by intense agitation or emotion
  • Equivalent
    ill    sick    agitated   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hot    sultry   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    frantic    restless    fevered    sudden    breathless    morbid    momentary    uneasy    hysterical    tremulous