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fervid

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fervid

1 having or expressing great depth of feeling

at the school board meeting the librarian delivered a fervid speech defending the classic novel against would-be censors

Synonyms of fervid

ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervent, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded

Words Related to fervid

gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugary

histrionic, melodramatic

enthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealous

enamored, infatuated, obsessed

uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained

frenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated

Phrases Synonymous with fervid

Near Antonyms of fervid

detached, dry, impersonal, objective

reserved, undemonstrative

Antonyms of fervid

cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional

2 having a notably high temperature

the fervid sands of the desert

Synonyms of fervid

ardent, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fiery, hot, piping hot, red, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sultry, superheated, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, white-hot

Words Related to fervid

blazing, glowing, igneous, molten, seething, sizzling

heated, overheated, reheated, warmed

snug, toasty, warm, warmish

feverish, flushed, inflamed (also enflamed)

canicular, muggy, steamy, summerlike, summery, tropical

Near Antonyms of fervid

chill, chilly, coldish, cool, coolish, nippy, snappy

blizzardly, frosty, snowy, subfreezing, subzero, wintry (also wintery)

chilled, cooled, refrigerated, unheated

benumbed, numb, shivering

Antonyms of fervid

algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, cold, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, ice-cold, iced, icy

Synonym Discussion of fervid

impassioned, passionate, ardent, fervent, fervid, perfervid mean showing intense feeling. impassioned implies warmth and intensity without violence and suggests fluent verbal expression.

- an impassioned plea for justice

passionate implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful diffusion of emotion.

- a passionate denunciation

ardent implies an intense degree of zeal, devotion, or enthusiasm.

- an ardent supporter of human rights

fervent stresses sincerity and steadiness of emotional warmth or zeal.

- fervent good wishes

fervid suggests warmly and spontaneously and often feverishly expressed emotion.

- fervid love letters

perfervid implies the expression of exaggerated or overwrought feelings.

- perfervid expressions of patriotism

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