fervid
adjective
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The Latin verb fervēre can mean "to boil" or "to glow," as well as, by extension, "to seethe" or "to be roused." In English, this root gives us three words that can mean "impassioned" by varying degrees: fervid, fervent, and perfervid. Fervid and fervent are practically synonymous, but while fervid usually suggests warm emotion that is expressed in a spontaneous or feverish manner (as in "fervid basketball fans"), fervent is reserved for a kind of emotional warmth that is steady and sincere (as in "a fervent belief in human kindness"). Perfervid combines fervid with the Latin prefix per- ("thoroughly") to create a word meaning "marked by overwrought or exaggerated emotion," as in "a perfervid display of patriotism."
Synonyms
- ardent
- blazing
- burning
- charged
- demonstrative
- emotional
- fervent
- feverish
- fiery
- flaming
- glowing
- hot-blooded
- impassioned
- incandescent
- intense
- passional
- passionate
- perfervid
- red-hot
- religious
- superheated
- torrid
- vehement
- warm
- warm-blooded
Example Sentences
Kyle Denis, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2022 Euphoria's resident brute spoke to GQ about his fervid role preparation process in a cover interview published Monday, admitting that his approach to portraying The Kissing Booth heartthrob Noah Flynn might have veered into the absurd. Jessica Wang, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2022 In stadium negotiations, fervid decades-long support for the Bills throughout Western New York strengthened the team’s hand. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2022 The fervid speculation over what Rolex would announce at Watches & Wonders—now an annual ritual amongst the global watch community—is finally at an end. Nick Scott, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2022 Kazantzakis, however, was fervid in his anti-imperialist beliefs, a conviction that prevented him from speaking out against – or perhaps even recognizing – the growing menace of fascism that in the 1930s was sweeping across the globe. Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 19 Mar. 2022 The icy cornucopia of the fifties is flushed out in the fervid deliquescence of the sixties. Frank Guan, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022 One, Farah seems to be having a more fervid head-to-head with Gebrselassie, trading embarrassingly public accusations of theft, assault, and misconduct during a stay in Gebrselassie’s Addis hotel. Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2019 But Milburn puts an original spin on the familiar beats of the backwoods shock genre thanks to his hallucinatory storytelling, John Mehrmann’s unnerving score and Spielberg’s fervid performance. Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021 See More Word History
Latin fervidus, from fervēre
1599, in the meaning defined at sense 1
fervid
adjective
Synonyms & Similar Words
- passionate
- fervent
- passional
- warm
- ardent
- intense
- emotional
- charged
- enthusiastic
- perfervid
- religious
- glowing
- fiery
- demonstrative
- impassioned
- vehement
- blazing
- feverish
- burning
- flaming
- torrid
- incandescent
- superheated
- hot-blooded
- on fire
- zealous
- sentimental
- warm-blooded
- red-hot
- gushy
- histrionic
- sloppy
- mawkish
- gushing
- maudlin
- melodramatic
- saccharine
- sugary
- schmaltzy
- sappy
- obsessed
- mushy
- infatuated
- uninhibited
- enamored
- frenzied
- keen
- orgiastic
- gung ho
- overheated
- unreserved
- overexcited
- unrestrained
- overemotional
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dispassionate
- cold
- impassive
- cool
- dry
- objective
- impersonal
- unemotional
- detached
- emotionless
- undemonstrative
- reserved
Synonyms & Similar Words
- boiling
- searing
- fervent
- hot
- ardent
- burning
- molten
- scorching
- fiery
- red
- sultry
- heated
- torrid
- warmed
- warm
- sweltering
- broiling
- superheated
- roasting
- scalding
- white-hot
- blazing
- glowing
- piping hot
- red-hot
- seething
- sizzling
- ultrahot
- overheated
- igneous
- feverish
- tropical
- flushed
- inflamed
- steamy
- toasty
- warmish
- reheated
- snug
- muggy
- enflamed
- summery
- summerlike
- canicular
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- cold
- frigid
- icy
- bitter
- glacial
- arctic
- frozen
- freezing
- cool
- chilly
- iced
- snappy
- chill
- frosty
- nippy
- wintry
- algid
- snowy
- ice-cold
- bone-chilling
- cooled
- coolish
- subzero
- wintery
- coldish
- unheated
- chilled
- benumbed
- shivering
- numb
- subfreezing
- refrigerated
- blizzardly
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of fervid are ardent, fervent, impassioned, passionate, and perfervid. While all these words mean "showing intense feeling," fervid suggests warmly and spontaneously and often feverishly expressed emotion.
The words ardent and fervid are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, ardent implies an intense degree of zeal, devotion, or enthusiasm.
While the synonyms fervent and fervid are close in meaning, fervent stresses sincerity and steadiness of emotional warmth or zeal.
The meanings of impassioned and fervid largely overlap; however, impassioned implies warmth and intensity without violence and suggests fluent verbal expression.
While in some cases nearly identical to fervid, passionate implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful diffusion of emotion.
In some situations, the words perfervid and fervid are roughly equivalent. However, perfervid implies the expression of exaggerated or overwrought feelings.