feverish

[fee-ver-ish] /ˈfi vər ɪʃ/
adjective
1.
having fever.
2.
pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling fever:
a feverish excitement.
3.
excited, restless, or uncontrolled, as if from fever.
4.
having a tendency to produce fever.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English feverisch. See fever, -ish1
Related forms
feverishly, adverb
feverishness, noun
nonfeverish, adjective
nonfeverishly, adverb
nonfeverishness, noun
pseudofeverish, adjective
pseudofeverishly, adverb
unfeverish, adjective
Can be confused
fervent, fever, feverish.
Synonyms
3. frenzied, impatient, fervent, wrought-up.
Examples from the web for feverish
  • Sam was more hardhearted, yet his feverish materialism created more jobs.
  • Northeast, land is changing hands at a feverish pace.
  • But when she became feverish and confused, her family took her to another hospital.
  • feverish visitors from the mainland can even pay for their shavings in their own currency, the yuan.
  • Humankind's feverish attachment to gold shouldn't have survived the modern world.
  • And some say they were unaware that their feverish clicks on a home computer may have been against the law.
  • We're not here to help our students make their minds resemble their laptops, fast and feverish.
  • In their latest work, they verified that the blend of chemicals makes the lab animals feverish as well.
  • Everyone danced to a feverish pitch and the normally reserved audience went wild.
  • After many feverish hours, he made the final deductive leap.
British Dictionary definitions for feverish

feverish

/ˈfiːvərɪʃ/
adjective
1.
suffering from fever, esp a slight fever
2.
in a state of restless excitement
3.
of, relating to, caused by, or causing fever
Derived Forms
feverishly, feverously, adverb
feverishness, noun
Word Origin and History for feverish
adj.

late 14c., "causing fever;" 1630s, "excited;" 1640s, "having symptoms of fever," from fever + -ish. Earlier in same sense was feverous (late 14c.). Related: Feverishly; feverishness.

feverish in Medicine

feverish fe·ver·ish (fē'vər-ĭsh)
adj.

  1. Having a fever.

  2. Relating to or resembling a fever.

  3. Causing or tending to cause a fever.