fervid
IPA: fˈɝvʌd
adjective
- Intensely hot; radiating with energy.
- (figurative) lively, spirited, or frenzied due to being ardent, passionate, and zealous.
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Examples of "fervid" in Sentences
- In the fervid atmosphere of the late 60s, not everybody recognized to what extent this was true.
- His hair, by contrast, he wore with a sharp side part and a fervid rectitude, as if all his phony honor depended on it.
- Grand total: 305 hp. The fervid, overreaching exhaust note is what a very fine sports car would sound like if it got a hernia.
- His letters are not the ardent, passionate, romantic epistles recalling the fervid style and thought of the _Nouvelle Héloïse_.
- All in all, Christopher Allen has crafted another fun fan film, creating a credible revival of a show beloved by a fervid fanbase.
- The name and space of Barbara Stratton 's TriBeCa lunch counter might have changed, but the homey food—and its fervid fans—have remained the same.
- But lo! the sun recalls his fervid ray, And cold and dim the wat’ry visions fail; While o’er yon cliff, whose pointed craggs decay, Mild Evening draws her thin empurpled veil!
- Here the middle-aged poet recalls the fervid dreams of his youth and thinks of them under the image of airy sprites attending his rushing chariot, like the Hours in Guido's picture.
- The birds were assembled beneath leafy shade, or made short, languid flights in search of food, all save the majestic buzzard; with broad wings out-spread he sailed the warm air unwarily from ridge to ridge, seeming to enjoy the fervid sunshine like a butterfly.
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