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feversome

feversome adjective: characterised or marked by fever.

Adjective

feversome (comparative more feversome, superlative most feversome)

  1. Characterised or marked by fever.
    • I picked up the figure, and was further surprised to find it very cold, as cold as a scoop of ice from the coolth-vendors you may have seen along the street here, offering their wares to chill a drink or a feversome brow.2013, Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt, Rags & Bones
    • It is quite a fitful fever-some sleep that little beetle is experiencing.2015, T. Weber, Our Dance Across the Plains

Forms of feversome

comparativemore feversome
superlativemost feversome
alternative formfever-some

Origin of feversome

From fever + -some.

Questions about feversome

What does feversome mean?
Feversome means characterised or marked by fever.
What part of speech is feversome?
Feversome is an adjective.

Words near feversome in the dictionary

  1. feverous
  2. feverously
  3. feverroot
  4. feverroots
  5. fevers
  6. feversome
  7. fevertwig
  8. feverweed
  9. feverwort
  10. feverworts
  11. fevery

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