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How is the word fervid different from other adjectives like it?

Some common synonyms of fervid are ardent, fervent, impassioned, passionate, and perfervid. While all these words mean "showing intense feeling," fervid suggests warmly and spontaneously and often feverishly expressed emotion.

fervid love letters

When is ardent a more appropriate choice than fervid?

The words ardent and fervid are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, ardent implies an intense degree of zeal, devotion, or enthusiasm.

an ardent supporter of human rights

When might fervent be a better fit than fervid?

While the synonyms fervent and fervid are close in meaning, fervent stresses sincerity and steadiness of emotional warmth or zeal.

fervent good wishes

Where would impassioned be a reasonable alternative to fervid?

The meanings of impassioned and fervid largely overlap; however, impassioned implies warmth and intensity without violence and suggests fluent verbal expression.

an impassioned plea for justice

When would passionate be a good substitute for fervid?

While in some cases nearly identical to fervid, passionate implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful diffusion of emotion.

a passionate denunciation

When is it sensible to use perfervid instead of fervid?

In some situations, the words perfervid and fervid are roughly equivalent. However, perfervid implies the expression of exaggerated or overwrought feelings.

perfervid expressions of patriotism

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fervid In 1956, Bauer became the attorney general of West Germany’s largest state and issued an arrest warrant for Adolf Eichmann, the fervid SS chieftain who had engineered the deportation of Jews from across Europe to the death camps. Gary J. Bass, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 Both planets are creating a fervid energy that juxtaposes with the tender Cancer moon. Lisa Stardust, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025 Despite fervid rumors, fellow bandmates Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson did not reunite on stage. Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2025 In 1956, Bauer became the attorney general of West Germany’s largest state and issued an arrest warrant for Adolf Eichmann, the fervid SS chieftain who had engineered the deportation of Jews from across Europe to the death camps. Gary J. Bass, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fervid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fervid
Adjective
  • Steenburgen is also a passionate advocate for increasing funding for the arts in schools across the country.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025
  • His parents and siblings served in the military, but Bradley, who wouldn't qualify to serve because of severe vision impairment in his right eye, was passionate about helping his community in a different way.
    Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
  • If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
Adjective
  • Once a supercharged campaign issue fueled in part by Trump advocates, fallout over the Epstein files now threatens to divide Republicans and even his most fervent supporters.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2025
  • Last July 13, just six minutes into Trump's speech to 15,000 fervent fans on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight shots from an assault rifle while atop the roof of American Glass Research, some 150 yards away.
    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
Adjective
  • About a dozen have visited or have plans to make stops in the early primary states, such as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, 60, who in April caught attention for delivering a searing speech in New Hampshire aimed at 'do-nothing' Democrats.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Central Florida faces another searing day Sunday with the National Weather Service placing much of the region under another heat advisory, and conditions could worsen Monday.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2025
Adjective
  • Sami Zayn got off to a hot start, with a moonsault off the barricade.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
  • The ball was a bit behind Warren and came in hot, hitting him in the back shoulder pad.
    Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Since the 1950s, average temperatures in July have trended roughly 2.7 degrees warmer, according to the weather service.
    Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 29 July 2025
  • Garages can be much warmer than the rest of homes due to poor insulation.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Tom Cruise has been awarded the Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps by an individual, netting a whopping 16 flaming jumps while filming Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 5 June 2025
  • The action star, 62, now has a Guinness World Records title for most burning parachute jumps by an individual, the organization announced Thursday, June 5.
    Jack Smart, People.com, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • In Naomi Alderman's contemporary work, the recognizable world is all but the same, except for the shocking revelation that teenage girls can now conduct electricity to cause intense physical pain or death to others.
    Robert English, EW.com, 30 July 2025
  • The team observed laser emissions in two distinct wavelengths for all color regions of the feathers' eyespots, with the green color regions emitting the most intense laser light.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2025

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“Fervid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fervid. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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