[ US /ˈfɝvəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by intense emotion
    an ardent lover
    a torrid love affair
    ardent love
    a fervent admirer
    fiery oratory
    an impassioned appeal
    a fervent desire to change society
  2. (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing
    set out...when the fervid heat subsides
    the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems
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How To Use fervid In A Sentence

  • Imagine a country with no McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's (the restaurant) or any other fervid fryers of French fries.
  • And the atmosphere of today's Europe is different: Back then, the fervid, revanchist nationalism of the losers traded blows with the victory-happy nationalism of the winners.
  • If it means that I grow a little too fervid, or perhaps even hyperbolical, in extolling my native land, I admit the full justice of the remark. Nicholas Nickleby
  • I suspect that the various principles texts being cooked up by various George Masonites will not be so perfervid in their single-minded, ideological tub-thumping along pro-laissez faire lines. I Heart Textbook Authors, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Of this kind of indifferency to all competing forms of external worship, and even of doctrine, combined with either a mystical and dreamy piety, or a wildly-fervid enthusiasm, Dell and Saltmarsh, among the army - chaplains, seem to have been the most noted exponents; but it was really The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
  • They are also, in many ways, fervid advocates of 19th- and early 20th-century American views of international politics.
  • He was vacillating, bombastic, insecure and perfervid by turns, but his poetry is as delicately complex as any.
  • Segregation was the perfervid cause of an intimidating minority, who kept everyone else in line through the threat of violence. History
  • Within a year, they found capital and a venue (a hidden courtyard just off New Bond Street), and launched Hush, to some acclaim and fervid celebrity interest.
  • Wagner set his sights on a degree in electrical engineering, and he followed his star with a fervid intensity.
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