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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:

Fervent \Fer"vent\, a. [F. fervent, L. fervens, -entis. p. pr.
   of fervere o the boiling hot, to boil, glow.]
   1. Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.
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            The elements shall melt with fervent heat. --2 Pet.
                                                  iii. 10.
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   2. Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of
      fervor; zealous; glowing.
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            Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit. --Rom.
                                                  iii. 11.
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            So spake the fervent angel.           --Milton.
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            A fervent desire to promote the happiness of
            mankind.                              --Macaulay.
      -- Fer"vent*ly, adv. -- Fer"vent*ness, n.
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            Laboring fervently for you in prayers. --Col. iv.
                                                  12.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fervent
    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]