fevered
/fˈivɚd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.36 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
verb
simple past and past participle of fever
Example Sentences
- "Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game."
- "To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S."
Etymology
From fever + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more fevered (comparative)
most fevered (superlative)