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fever

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fever

1 an abnormal state that disrupts a plantʼs or animalʼs normal bodily functioning

  • before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that
Synonyms of fever

affection, ail, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness, trouble
Words Related to fever

contagion, contagious disease

contagium, infection

attack, bout, fit, spell

debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, weakness

malaise, matter, pip

epidemic, pest, pestilence, plague
Near Antonyms of fever

fitness, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, soundness, wholeness, wholesomeness

fettle, shape
Antonyms of fever

health, wellness

2 a state of wildly excited activity or emotion

  • in the fever of a political campaign a lot of things get said that never should have been said
Synonyms of fever

agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, feverishness, flap, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, hysteria, rage, rampage, uproar
Words Related to fever

chaos, confusion, disorder, havoc, pandemonium, turmoil

bedlam, bother, brouhaha, bustle, clamor, clatter, commotion, disturbance, fuss, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tempest, tumult
Near Antonyms of fever

calm, calmness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, quietude, repose, restfulness, sereneness, serenity, still, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility), tranquilness

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