Fevered
adjective
Someone or something is very excited or energetic.
The fans were fevered with anticipation for the concert.
Often appears as...
- fevered excitement
- fevered anticipation
adjective
Having or showing the symptoms of a fever.
The nurse was concerned about her patient's fevered condition.
adjective
Full of intense or chaotic activity.
During the holidays, the mall was a scene of fevered shopping activity.
Often appears as...
- fevered activity
- fevered shopping
adjective
Someone or something is very excited or energetic.
The fans were fevered with anticipation for the concert.
Often appears as...
- fevered excitement
- fevered anticipation
adjective
Having or showing the symptoms of a fever.
The nurse was concerned about her patient's fevered condition.
adjective
Full of intense or chaotic activity.
During the holidays, the mall was a scene of fevered shopping activity.
Often appears as...
- fevered activity
- fevered shopping
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Heat
Used metaphorically to describe a state of high energy or passion, not actual temperature.
The debate team entered with a fevered pitch in their argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Pre-Event Excitement
Often used to characterize the excitement before a highly anticipated event or action.
The theater buzzed with fevered excitement on opening night.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
The excitement suggested by 'fevered' can sometimes imply anxiety or unhealthy obsession.
The rumor sparked a fevered flurry of gossip.
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Heat
Used metaphorically to describe a state of high energy or passion, not actual temperature.
The debate team entered with a fevered pitch in their argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Pre-Event Excitement
Often used to characterize the excitement before a highly anticipated event or action.
The theater buzzed with fevered excitement on opening night.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
The excitement suggested by 'fevered' can sometimes imply anxiety or unhealthy obsession.
The rumor sparked a fevered flurry of gossip.
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Heat
Used metaphorically to describe a state of high energy or passion, not actual temperature.
The debate team entered with a fevered pitch in their argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Pre-Event Excitement
Often used to characterize the excitement before a highly anticipated event or action.
The theater buzzed with fevered excitement on opening night.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
The excitement suggested by 'fevered' can sometimes imply anxiety or unhealthy obsession.
The rumor sparked a fevered flurry of gossip.
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Why should you read...
meaning they were released a few chapters at a time in affordable literary journals and only later reprinted as books. This prompted fevered speculation over the cliffhangers and revelations he devised. Serialization not only made fiction available to a wider audience
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Why it's so hard to talk...
This is serious. Students across the country talk about switching majors and dropping classes because of poor teaching around the N-word. The issue of faculty carelessly speaking the word has reached such a fevered pitch,
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
biological specimens and while he was there on the island of Turin arte he had a malarial attack and as a result of that malarial attackers he was highly fevered the idea came to him that perhaps species were
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The One MILLION Dollar...
frenzy is added to by the fevered
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Why should you read...
meaning they were released a few chapters at a time in affordable literary journals and only later reprinted as books. This prompted fevered speculation over the cliffhangers and revelations he devised. Serialization not only made fiction available to a wider audience
Video examples
Why it's so hard to talk...
This is serious. Students across the country talk about switching majors and dropping classes because of poor teaching around the N-word. The issue of faculty carelessly speaking the word has reached such a fevered pitch,
Video examples
Tim Flannery: Here on...
biological specimens and while he was there on the island of Turin arte he had a malarial attack and as a result of that malarial attackers he was highly fevered the idea came to him that perhaps species were
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The One MILLION Dollar...
frenzy is added to by the fevered
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Vincent Bugliosi
American Author
All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
In America, the new post-postmodern politician is all about authenticity: the daffier you are, the 'realer' you must be. The more you have committed yourself to a ridiculous idea and fevered view, the more worthy you are of attention.
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Emile Durkheim
French Sociologist
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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Vincent Bugliosi
American Author
All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
Quote examples
Michael Wolff
American Author
In America, the new post-postmodern politician is all about authenticity: the daffier you are, the 'realer' you must be. The more you have committed yourself to a ridiculous idea and fevered view, the more worthy you are of attention.
Quote examples
Emile Durkheim
French Sociologist
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Example 1 of 3
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