Feverish
adjective
Having a high body temperature, like when you are sick.
He felt feverish and was coughing a lot, so he decided to see a doctor.
Often appears as...
- feel feverish
- look feverish
adjective
Full of nervous excitement or energy.
There was a feverish excitement in the city as the local team prepared to play in the championship game.
Often appears as...
- feverish excitement
- feverish activity
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Approving
adjective
Working quickly and intensely, often in a way that is not organized or controlled.
She worked with feverish intensity to meet the project deadline.
Often appears as...
- feverish intensity
- feverish pace
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Neutral
adjective
Having a high body temperature, like when you are sick.
He felt feverish and was coughing a lot, so he decided to see a doctor.
Often appears as...
- feel feverish
- look feverish
adjective
Full of nervous excitement or energy.
There was a feverish excitement in the city as the local team prepared to play in the championship game.
Often appears as...
- feverish excitement
- feverish activity
Usage tips
Approving
adjective
Working quickly and intensely, often in a way that is not organized or controlled.
She worked with feverish intensity to meet the project deadline.
Often appears as...
- feverish intensity
- feverish pace
Usage tips
Neutral
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Illness Indicator
Indicates someone might be sick and could have an actual fever.
After playing in the rain, she looked feverish and shivered.
Pro Tip 2/2Subjective Feeling
Describes a personal sensation, not always a true fever measured with a thermometer.
Even though his temperature was normal, he felt feverish.
Pro Tip 1/2Illness Indicator
Indicates someone might be sick and could have an actual fever.
After playing in the rain, she looked feverish and shivered.
Pro Tip 2/2Subjective Feeling
Describes a personal sensation, not always a true fever measured with a thermometer.
Even though his temperature was normal, he felt feverish.
Pro Tip 1/2Illness Indicator
Indicates someone might be sick and could have an actual fever.
After playing in the rain, she looked feverish and shivered.
Pro Tip 2/2Subjective Feeling
Describes a personal sensation, not always a true fever measured with a thermometer.
Even though his temperature was normal, he felt feverish.
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Why do we sweat? - John...
and causes blood vessels to widen, two responses that increase heat and trigger the sweating response. And sweating also occurs when we get sick. When we're feverish, we sweat because infections stimulate the hypothalamus to increase muscle activity,
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The history of human...
and his friends come to visit and they find him dejected and feverish, having heart palpitations, strange sores breaking out on his body. Doctors are called, and they think it's so serious that prayers are said for him in the local church.
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Meet Gita, the robot...
this is one of them contrary to the feverish promises of turn of the 20th century futurists the romance of the road is it's driving Humanity down a dead-end
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Why do we sweat? - John...
and causes blood vessels to widen, two responses that increase heat and trigger the sweating response. And sweating also occurs when we get sick. When we're feverish, we sweat because infections stimulate the hypothalamus to increase muscle activity,
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The history of human...
and his friends come to visit and they find him dejected and feverish, having heart palpitations, strange sores breaking out on his body. Doctors are called, and they think it's so serious that prayers are said for him in the local church.
Video examples
Meet Gita, the robot...
this is one of them contrary to the feverish promises of turn of the 20th century futurists the romance of the road is it's driving Humanity down a dead-end
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Quote examples
Gary Hamel
American Businessman
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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Steven Blum
American Actor
Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Bieber is the first mega YouTube star, born inexplicably out of a novel and disruptive medium. It has, of course, always been so for pop culture: feverish bubbles, silly novelty acts and disconcerting new forces impose themselves on a reluctant and condescending media.
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Susan Orlean
American Journalist
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.
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Perfume Genius
American Musician
I was scared of the devil starting around age nine. Before that, I was gathering every family member in the living room, slipping a shirt over my robe so the bottom hung like a skirt and performing Gloria Estefan songs with feverish intensity.
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Denise Lewis
British Athlete
I really wasn't well - feeling feverish then cold - so I went to the doctor to find out if I had flu and they did a blood test. I thought: 'Okay, this is it. I'm pre-menopausal.' Then Steve said: 'Are you sure you're not pregnant?
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Florence Nightingale
English Activist
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Jim Crace
English Writer
I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.
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Charli XCX
British Musician
When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.
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William Ellery Channing
American Writer
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
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Gary Hamel
American Businessman
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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Steven Blum
American Actor
Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Bieber is the first mega YouTube star, born inexplicably out of a novel and disruptive medium. It has, of course, always been so for pop culture: feverish bubbles, silly novelty acts and disconcerting new forces impose themselves on a reluctant and condescending media.
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Susan Orlean
American Journalist
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.
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Perfume Genius
American Musician
I was scared of the devil starting around age nine. Before that, I was gathering every family member in the living room, slipping a shirt over my robe so the bottom hung like a skirt and performing Gloria Estefan songs with feverish intensity.
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Denise Lewis
British Athlete
I really wasn't well - feeling feverish then cold - so I went to the doctor to find out if I had flu and they did a blood test. I thought: 'Okay, this is it. I'm pre-menopausal.' Then Steve said: 'Are you sure you're not pregnant?
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Florence Nightingale
English Activist
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Jim Crace
English Writer
I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.
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Charli XCX
British Musician
When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.
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William Ellery Channing
American Writer
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
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