fevered
adjEtymology From fever + -ed.
1
Affected by a fever; feverish.
2
Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
- Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
- To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.2010, Noam Chomsky, “The Iranian threat”, in Z Magazine, volume 23, number 7:
- Related terms
- cabin-fevered