feverous
feverous adjective: affected with a fever.
Adjective
feverous (comparative more feverous, superlative most feverous)
- affected with a fever.
- How often placed upon the sick man's brow
Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!1864, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the poem)”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC - Who feels his temples newly feverous.1866, Poems and Ballads, The Two Dreams
- How often placed upon the sick man's brow
- having the nature of fever
- Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
- having a tendency to produce fever
- a feverous disposition of the year
- For the soul that was but as a reed in the wind hath attained a Nirvana of calm,
And is in this feverous desert of life a fountain of healing and balm,1897, Julia Ditto Young, The Story of Saville
- feverish; frenetic
Forms of feverous
| comparative | more feverous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most feverous |
Origin of feverous
From fever + -ous.
Words formed from feverous
Questions about feverous
- What does feverous mean?
- Feverous means affected with a fever.
- What part of speech is feverous?
- Feverous is an adjective.
Words near feverous in the dictionary
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