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Definition of perfervid in English: perfervidadjective pəˈfəːvɪdˌpərˈfərvɪd literary Intense and impassioned. Example sentencesExamples - He adopted one medium after another, fascinated at first by new formal possibilities and soon distracted into perfervid polemic.
- He was a perfervid nationalist who was jailed for his beliefs.
- He always savoured the chance to quash interviewers with one of his favourite put-downs: ‘Please desist from your perfervid questioning.’
- It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
- He was vacillating, bombastic, insecure and perfervid by turns, but his poetry is as delicately complex as any.
Synonyms intense, impassioned, ardent, fervent, fervid, zealous, vehement, fiery, heated, feverish, emotional, heartfelt, eager, excited, animated, spirited, vigorous, strong, energetic, messianic, fanatical, frenzied, wild, fierce, consuming, violent, tumultuous, flaming, raging, burning, uncontrollable, ungovernable
Derivatives adverb literary noun literary
Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin perfervidus, from Latin per- 'utterly' + fervidus 'glowing hot, fiery'. Definition of perfervid in US English: perfervidadjectiveˌpərˈfərvidˌpərˈfərvɪd literary Intense and impassioned. Example sentencesExamples - He adopted one medium after another, fascinated at first by new formal possibilities and soon distracted into perfervid polemic.
- He was a perfervid nationalist who was jailed for his beliefs.
- It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
- He was vacillating, bombastic, insecure and perfervid by turns, but his poetry is as delicately complex as any.
- He always savoured the chance to quash interviewers with one of his favourite put-downs: ‘Please desist from your perfervid questioning.’
Synonyms intense, impassioned, ardent, fervent, fervid, zealous, vehement, fiery, heated, feverish, emotional, heartfelt, eager, excited, animated, spirited, vigorous, strong, energetic, messianic, fanatical, frenzied, wild, fierce, consuming, violent, tumultuous, flaming, raging, burning, uncontrollable, ungovernable
Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin perfervidus, from Latin per- ‘utterly’ + fervidus ‘glowing hot, fiery’. |