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unnaturally excited or active: fevered imagination The movie is clearly the product of a fevered imagination. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Excited, interested and enthusiastic. abubble. aflutter. agog. all of a flutter idiom. amped. enthusiastically. entranced. evangelical. evangelistically. lean towards sth.
noun. fe· ver ˈfē-vər. Synonyms of fever. 1. a. : a rise of body temperature above the normal. b. : any of various diseases of which fever is a prominent symptom. 2. a. : a state of heightened or intense emotion or activity. b. : a contagious usually transient enthusiasm : craze. fever. 2 of 2. verb. fevered; fevering ˈfē-vriŋ. ˈfe-vər-iŋ.
Definition of fevered adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you're fevered, you're agitated or overly excited about something. A group of middle school kids might have a fevered reaction to the news that their favorite band is in town.
unnaturally excited or active: fevered imagination The movie is clearly the product of a fevered imagination. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Excited, interested and enthusiastic. abubble. aflutter. agog. all of a flutter idiom. amped. enthusiastically. entranced. evangelical. evangelistically. lean toward sth.
Fevered is used to describe feelings of great excitement, and the activities that result from them. [written] Meg was in a state of fevered anticipation. ...fevered speculation over the leadership. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If a person is fevered, or they have a fevered brow, they are suffering from a fever. [literary]
The earliest known use of the adjective fevered is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for fevered is from 1605, in the writing of S. Garey. fevered is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fever n.1, ‑ed suffix2; fever v., ‑ed suffix1.
