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perfervid

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of perfervid

having or expressing great depth of feeling

the perfervid prose of a romance novel

Synonyms of perfervid

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

Words Related to perfervid

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 perfervid

Near Antonyms of perfervid

detached, dry, impersonal, objective

reserved, undemonstrative

Antonyms of perfervid

cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional

Synonym Discussion of perfervid

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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