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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. characterized by intense emotion;
- Example: "ardent love"
- Example: "an ardent lover"
- Example: "a fervent desire to change society"
- Example: "a fervent admirer"
- Example: "fiery oratory"
- Example: "an impassioned appeal"
- Example: "a torrid love affair"
[syn: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid]

2. extremely hot;
- Example: "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Example: "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope
[syn: fervent, fervid]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fervid \Fer"vid\, a. [L. fervidus, fr. fervere. See Fervent.]
   1. Very hot; burning; boiling.
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            The mounted sun
            Shot down direct his fervid rays.     --Milton.
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   2. Ardent; vehement; zealous.
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            The fervid wishes, holy fires.        --Parnell.
      -- Fer"vid*ly, adv. -- Fer"vid*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fervid
    adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an
           ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a
           fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned
           appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent,
           fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid,
           torrid]
    2: extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a
       genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel
       Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances
       Trollope [syn: fervent, fervid]