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fervescent

fervescent adjective: growing hotter.

Adjective

fervescent (comparative more fervescent, superlative most fervescent)

  1. (archaic) Growing hotter.
    • Where’s the argentiferous wind-jammer of Nebraska whose fervescent oratory knocked the Chicago Convention head over heels?1897 May 13, “Run Here, Somebody”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume LXVII (old series) / XXXII (new series), number 291, Montgomery, Ala.: The Advertiser Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2

Forms of fervescent

comparativemore fervescent
superlativemost fervescent

Origin of fervescent

From Latin fervescens, present participle of fervescere (“to become boiling hot, inchoate”), from fervere. See fervent. By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -escent.

Words that rhyme with fervescent

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Questions about fervescent

What does fervescent mean?
Fervescent means growing hotter.
What part of speech is fervescent?
Fervescent is an adjective.

Words near fervescent in the dictionary

  1. ferventest
  2. fervently
  3. ferventness
  4. fervenulin
  5. fervescence
  6. fervescent
  7. fervid
  8. fervid plagodis
  9. fervider
  10. fervidest
  11. fervidity

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