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[ US /ˈfɝvəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by intense emotion
    an ardent lover
    a torrid love affair
    ardent love
    a fervent admirer
    fiery oratory
    an impassioned appeal
    a fervent desire to change society
  2. (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing
    set out...when the fervid heat subsides
    the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems

How To Use fervid In A Sentence

  • He was a perfervid nationalist who was jailed for his beliefs.
  • Combined with fervid Methodism, you've got ruthless certainty.
  • 'Debita carminibus libertas ista; sed omnis in vero mihi cura: canam quo fervida motu aestuet Aetna novosque rapax sibi congerat ignes.' The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
  • Too many students left the teach-in feeling intimidated not by the overwhelming opposition to the war, but to the way an academic forum became a fervid presentation of an exclusive viewpoint.
  • Some with the greatest access of luster equal the colors of painters, others the fervid flames of sulphur, or fires quickened with oil.
  • Despite sometimes being quite sensible (as Mr. Kenney is trying to be on citizenship, refugees and immigration), it's members of the Frat Pack who are immediately off the mark with the kind of perfervid rhetoric that goes with the Conservative communications strategy: unrelenting partisanship and obsessive control of information. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Pass by the fervid flowers that press themselves on your sight.
  • Rather call the dusky and dark-haired Twilight, whose pensive face is limned against the western hills, by the name of that fierce and fervid Noon that stands erect under the hot zenith, instinct with the red blood of a thousand summers, casting her glittering tresses abroad upon the south-wind, and holding in her hands the all-unfolded rose of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
  • The book is overlong, repetitious, and written in a kind of perfervid prose that quickly becomes tiring. The One and Only
  • He was a ready scholar as you are, but more fervid and impatient.
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