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ferbile

ferbile is the misspelling of febrile.

Meaning of febrile

Adjective

febrile (comparative more febrile, superlative most febrile)

  1. Feverish, or having a high temperature.
    • Aurora's orange sun (Baley scarcely noted the orange tinge now) was mildly warm on his back, lacking the febrile heat that Earth's sun had in summer (but, then, what was the climate and season on this portion of Aurora right now?).1983, Isaac Asimov, chapter 22, in The Robots of Dawn, →ISBN, page 116
    Synonyms:
    flushed, hot
  2. Involving fever as a symptom or cause.
  3. (figuratively) Full of nervous energy.
    • An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport
    Synonyms:
    energetic, excited

Forms of ferbile

comparativemore ferbile
superlativemost ferbile

Questions about ferbile

What is ferbile the misspelling of?
Ferbile is the misspelling of febrile.

Words near ferbile in the dictionary

  1. Ferberization
  2. Ferberize
  3. Ferberized
  4. Ferberizes
  5. Ferberizing
  6. ferbile
  7. FERC
  8. ferchromide
  9. fercockta
  10. fercocta
  11. fercrissake

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