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How is the word fervid different from other adjectives like it?

Some common synonyms of fervid are ardent, fervent, impassioned, passionate, and perfervid. While all these words mean "showing intense feeling," fervid suggests warmly and spontaneously and often feverishly expressed emotion.

fervid love letters

When is ardent a more appropriate choice than fervid?

The words ardent and fervid are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, ardent implies an intense degree of zeal, devotion, or enthusiasm.

an ardent supporter of human rights

When might fervent be a better fit than fervid?

While the synonyms fervent and fervid are close in meaning, fervent stresses sincerity and steadiness of emotional warmth or zeal.

fervent good wishes

Where would impassioned be a reasonable alternative to fervid?

The meanings of impassioned and fervid largely overlap; however, impassioned implies warmth and intensity without violence and suggests fluent verbal expression.

an impassioned plea for justice

When would passionate be a good substitute for fervid?

While in some cases nearly identical to fervid, passionate implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful diffusion of emotion.

a passionate denunciation

When is it sensible to use perfervid instead of fervid?

In some situations, the words perfervid and fervid are roughly equivalent. However, perfervid implies the expression of exaggerated or overwrought feelings.

perfervid expressions of patriotism

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fervid In 1956, Bauer became the attorney general of West Germany’s largest state and issued an arrest warrant for Adolf Eichmann, the fervid SS chieftain who had engineered the deportation of Jews from across Europe to the death camps. Gary J. Bass, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 Both planets are creating a fervid energy that juxtaposes with the tender Cancer moon. Lisa Stardust, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025 The fervid love conquest inspires a wager between La Muerte (Kate del Castillo), ruler of the Land of the Remembered, and Xibalba (Ron Perlman), ruler of the Land of the Forgotten. Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024 That friend, who lives in a blue house down the street, is now a fervid supporter of former President Donald Trump. Nico Lang, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for fervid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fervid
Adjective
  • His passionate pursuit of public service, driven by principle and purpose and not self-aggrandizement, was Gerry’s secret sauce.
    Paul Laudicina, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • The wistful cover makes the case for focusing more on the ballad and less on the power, aspect associated with the passionate love song.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
  • If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
Adjective
  • The resulting jump in bond yields to near two-decade highs raised long-term borrowing costs and served as a stark warning for the path ahead that was echoed privately by a handful of Trump allies and to CNN and publicly by one of Trump’s most fervent defenders.
    Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
  • In Jimmy Carter's case, transparency about melanoma that had spread to his brain in 2015, as well as his fervent religious faith and subsequent recovery from the dreaded disease, only made the former president seem heroic.
    Barbara A. Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Peña said that because the physical changes to the third floor will be minimal, the new flea market should be open in the next couple of weeks — just in time to avoid Miami’s searing summer heat and sudden thunderstorms.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 21 May 2025
  • Pyroclastic clouds, or a dense mixture of ash, gas and rock dispersed during a volcanic eruption, caused a searing, rapid avalanche of debris to fill the home, Zuchtriegel said.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • Pour hot cream over chocolate chips in a large heatproof mixing bowl; let stand 3 minutes.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 22 May 2025
  • Science funding is a hot topic these days and people have questions about how grants work.
    Kelly S. Mix, The Conversation, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • And waters in the eastern subtropical Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean are warmer than normal for this time of year.
    Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2025
  • But has life ever gotten better than a warm nighttime in the stands during a pitchers’ duel with a beer and a hot dog?
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • Mud puddles are courageous, too, when returning the unblinking, burning gaze of the sky’s white eye.
    contributing Monitor poets, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • The auto-revive for solo players on Night Lords is to combat the intense difficulties of those fights where a single wrong move can be death.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • And, believe it or not, Europe does have air conditioning, which can be quite an intense shift when moving between the outdoors into coach buses or stores.
    Gregory Robinson, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2025

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“Fervid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fervid. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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