feverish

English

Etymology

From fever +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.və.ɹɪʃ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.vɚ.ɪʃ/

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Adjective

feverish (comparative more feverish, superlative most feverish)

1. Having a fever, an elevated body temperature.

   The illness made him feverish, so they applied cold compresses.

   • 2020 December 7, Kristen Rogers, “Think your normal temperature is 98.6? Maybe not (and why that’s important)”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     People who feel warm or provide a history of feeling feverish may also be determined to have a fever.

2. Filled with excess energy.

   He worked with feverish excitement.

3. Morbidly eager.

   a feverish desire to see her again

Derived terms

• feverishly
• feverish matter
• feverishness
• feverish urine
• unfeverish

Translations

in the state of having a fever

• Bulgarian: трескав (bg) (treskav)
• Burmese: ဖျား (my) (hpya:) (to be feverish)
• Catalan: febril
• Czech: horečnatý (cs) m
• Danish: febril (da), febersyg, feberhed, feber-
• Dutch: koortsig (nl)
• Esperanto: febra (eo)
• French: fiévreux (fr)
• German: fiebrig (de), febril (de), fieberhaft (de)
• Greek: εμπύρετος (el) m (empýretos)
• Indonesian: demam (id)
• Irish: fiabhrasach
• Italian: febbricoso (it)
• Korean: 열(이 )나는 (yeol(i )naneun)
• Latin: febriculentus
• Maori: tūhauwiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: febril

  Nynorsk: febril

• Plautdietsch: feebrich
• Portuguese: febril (pt)
• Spanish: febril (es)
• Sundanese: harééng
• Ukrainian: гарячко́вий (harjačkóvyj)
• Welsh: poeth (cy)

filled with excess energy

• Catalan: febril
• Czech: horečný m
• Danish: febrilsk
• Dutch: koortsachtig (nl)
• German: fieberhaft (de)
• Greek: πυρετώδης (el) m (pyretódis)
• Hebrew: קַדַּחְתָּנִי (he) m (qadaẖtaní)
• Korean: 열(이 )많은 (yeol(i )maneun)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (activity) febrilsk

  Nynorsk: (activity) febrilsk

• Spanish: febril (es)
• Ukrainian: гарячко́вий (harjačkóvyj)

Further reading

• “feverish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “feverish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.