fervid
1. 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
• Syn:
ardent, fervent, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid
• Similar to:
passionate
• Derivationally related forms:
fire (for: fiery), fieriness (for: fiery), fervidness, fervency (for: fervent)
2. 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
• Syn:
fervent
• Similar to:
hot
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