perfervid
/pəˈfəːvɪd
/adjective literary
Intense and impassioned: perfervid nationalism...
- He was a perfervid nationalist who was jailed for his beliefs.
- He adopted one medium after another, fascinated at first by new formal possibilities and soon distracted into perfervid polemic.
- He was vacillating, bombastic, insecure and perfervid by turns, but his poetry is as delicately complex as any.
Derivatives
perfervidly
perfervidness
Origin
Mid 19th century: from modern Latin perfervidus, from Latin per- 'utterly' + fervidus 'glowing hot, fiery'.
Rhymes
- overvault
- overvaulting
- over-veil
- overventilate
- overventilation
- overview
- overviewer
- over-violent
- overvoltage
- overvote
- overvoting
- overvulcanise
- over-vulcanization
- over-vulcanize
- overvulcanize
- over-warm
- have (or add) another string to one's bow
- have (or be on) a short fuse
- have (or eat) someone for breakfast
- have (or gain) the upper hand
- have (or get) a foot in the door
- have (or get) a leg-up on
- have (or get) itchy feet
- have (or get)one's snout (or nose) in the trough
- have (or get) one's snout (or nose) in the trough