fevered
/ˈfiːvəd
/adjective
1Having or showing the symptoms associated with a dangerously high temperature: they mopped his fevered brow...
- These thoughts spun around in my head, making my fevered brow sweat.
- Your face is all red and unless I am mistaken that is sweat on your fevered brow.
- The chill provided a welcome cool to his fevered temperature.
Synonyms
feverish, febrile, hot, burning, sweating
rare pyretic
1.1Feeling or displaying an excessive degree of nervous excitement, agitation, or energy: my fevered adolescent imagination...
- His soloing, particularly on Hootie's Blues and his confessed favourite tune Cherokee is said to have set off wild dancing and fevered excitement among the concert goers.
- But after all this excitement and even some fevered dance-floor action I became tired and had to lie down for a bit.
- Few experiences can match the fevered, full-bodied excitement of a good island fête.
Synonyms
excited, agitated, energetic, frenzied, overwrought, frantic, worked up, fervid
British informal swivel-eyed
- notch filter
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- notch provision
- notch-sensitive
- notch sensitivity
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- notch toughness
- notchy
- not cricket
- not do something for the world
- not do things by halves
- repetitive DNA
- repetitively
- repetitive motion disorder
- repetitive motion injury
- repetitiveness
- repetitive strain injury
- repetitor
- rep-goer
- rephase
- rephrase