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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

on fire
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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