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FEVERISH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by intense agitation or emotion
Example:
worked at a feverish pace
Synonyms:
feverish; hectic
Classified under:
Similar:
agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having or affected by a fever
Synonyms:
feverish; feverous
Classified under:
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
Derivation:
feverishness (a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characterized by fever
Example:
a febrile reaction caused by an allergen
Synonyms:
febrile; feverish
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
fever (a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection)
Derivation:
feverishness (a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection)
Context examples:
She was very feverish and had a bad sore throat: Mrs. Goddard was full of care and affection, Mr. Perry was talked of, and Harriet herself was too ill and low to resist the authority which excluded her from this delightful engagement, though she could not speak of her loss without many tears.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A very restless and feverish night, however, disappointed the expectation of both; and when Marianne, after persisting in rising, confessed herself unable to sit up, and returned voluntarily to her bed, Elinor was very ready to adopt Mrs. Jennings's advice, of sending for the Palmers' apothecary.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Catherine meanwhile—the anxious, agitated, happy, feverish Catherine—said not a word; but her glowing cheek and brightened eye made her mother trust that this good-natured visit would at least set her heart at ease for a time, and gladly therefore did she lay aside the first volume of The Mirror for a future hour.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Every moment was drive, drive, drive, and Joe was the masterful shepherd of moments, herding them carefully, never losing one, counting them over like a miser counting gold, working on in a frenzy, toil-mad, a feverish machine, aided ably by that other machine that thought of itself as once having been one Martin Eden, a man.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Feverish with vain labour, I got up and took a turn in the room; undrew the curtain, noted a star or two, shivered with cold, and again crept to bed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He seemed to have been watching the clock as well as I, for it was hardly six before he began to talk with the same feverish animation as before.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Frankenstein has daily declined in health; a feverish fire still glimmers in his eyes, but he is exhausted, and when suddenly roused to any exertion, he speedily sinks again into apparent lifelessness.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The advice was followed readily, for the feverish symptoms increased, and her head ached acutely.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Though heavy and feverish, with a pain in her limbs, and a cough, and a sore throat, a good night's rest was to cure her entirely; and it was with difficulty that Elinor prevailed on her, when she went to bed, to try one or two of the simplest of the remedies.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Advise was his word, but it was the advice of absolute power, and she had only to rise, and, with Mr. Crawford's very cordial adieus, pass quietly away; stopping at the entrance-door, like the Lady of Branxholm Hall, one moment and no more, to view the happy scene, and take a last look at the five or six determined couple who were still hard at work; and then, creeping slowly up the principal staircase, pursued by the ceaseless country-dance, feverish with hopes and fears, soup and negus, sore-footed and fatigued, restless and agitated, yet feeling, in spite of everything, that a ball was indeed delightful.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
