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fervid

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fer·vid  (fûrvd)
adj.
1. Marked by great passion or zeal: a fervid patriot.
2. Extremely hot; burning.
[Latin fervidus, from fervre, to boil; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.]
fervid·ly adv.
fervid·ness n.
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Adj.1.fervidfervid - characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
ardent, fervent, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid
passionate - having or expressing strong emotions
2.fervid - 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
fervent
hot - used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"


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IN youth I have known one with whom the Earth In secret communing held-as he with it, In daylight, and in beauty, from his birth: Whose fervid, flickering torch of life was lit From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn forth A passionate light such for his spirit was fit And yet that spirit knew-not in the hour Of its own fervor-what had o'er it power.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
It may be that among them a more fervid Keats, a more ethereal Shelley, has already published numbers the world will willingly remember.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Thus had I sunken one day From mine own truth-insanity, From mine own fervid day-longings, Of day aweary, sick of sunshine, --Sunk downwards, evenwards, shadowwards: By one sole trueness All scorched and thirsty: --Bethinkst thou still, bethinkst thou, burning heart, How then thou thirstedest?
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
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