1 [usuallybeforenoun] showing strong feelings of excitement or worry, often with a lot of activity or quick movements:
The whole place was a scene of feverish activity. * a state of feverish excitement * He worked with feverish haste. * feverish with desire / longing
2 suffering from a fever; caused by a fever:
She was aching and feverish. * a feverish cold / dream / sleep
feverishly adverb:
The team worked feverishly to the November deadline. * Her mind raced feverishly.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for feverish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is feverish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, feverish is tagged as adjective.
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