Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

feverous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fever-ous
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

affected with a fever.

adj

having the nature of fever

adj

having a tendency to produce fever

adj

feverish; frenetic

Example Sentences

"How often placed upon the sick man's brow Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!"
"Who feels his temples newly feverous."
"1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230, O all wide places, far from feverous towns! Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!"
"Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds"
"a feverous disposition of the year"
"For the soul that was but as a reed in the wind hath attained a Nirvana of calm, And is in this feverous desert of life a fountain of healing and balm,"

Etymology

Etymology tree English fever Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English feverous From fever + -ous.

Inflected Forms

more feverous (comparative) most feverous (superlative)

Derived Forms

feverously

Synonyms

feverish

Questions

What does feverous mean?: affected with a fever.
Where does feverous come from?: Etymology tree English fever Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English feverous From fever + -ous.

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