fervid

fer·vid (fûr

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.	fervid - 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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