fevered

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English fever

English -ed

English fevered

From fever + -ed.

Adjective

fevered (comparative more fevered, superlative most fevered)

1. Affected by a fever; feverish.
2. Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
   • 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman‎^[1]:

     Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.

   • 2010, Noam Chomsky, “The Iranian threat”, in Z Magazine, volume 23, number 7:

     To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.

Derived terms

• befevered
• unfevered

Related terms

• cabin-fevered

Translations

affected by fever

• Bulgarian: трескав (bg) (treskav)
• French: fiévreux (fr)

impassioned

• Bulgarian: пламнал (bg) (plamnal), страстен (bg) (strasten)
• French: enflammé (fr)

Verb

fevered

1. simple past and past participle of fever