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perfervid

/pəːˈfəːvɪd/

perfervid adjective: extremely, excessively, or feverishly passionate; zealous.

Adjective

perfervid (comparative more perfervid, superlative most perfervid)

  1. Extremely, excessively, or feverishly passionate; zealous.
    • Manders — perfervid — 'hell'-ing excitedly (was there no one left on earth to convert but me?), quoting over a century from Marx and Nietzsche to Lenin, Lloyd George, and Eden, and on to Vessant and Mundaine and himself...1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 58
    • In this case he saw himself sitting beside the breathing slender figure of Pia like someone in an old engraving – a beastly old Rembrandt exhaling the perfervid gloom of Protestantism and a diet of turnips.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 177

Synonyms of perfervid

Forms of perfervid

comparativemore perfervid
superlativemost perfervid

Origin of perfervid

From Late Latin perfervidus, from Latin per- + fervidus. By surface analysis, per- + fervid; compare pellucid.

Words formed from perfervid

Questions about perfervid

What does perfervid mean?
Perfervid means extremely, excessively, or feverishly passionate; zealous.
What part of speech is perfervid?
Perfervid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce perfervid?
Perfervid is pronounced /pəːˈfəːvɪd/ (UK).

Words near perfervid in the dictionary

  1. perfectos
  2. perfects
  3. perfectural
  4. perfectus
  5. perfed
  6. perfervid
  7. perfervidity
  8. perfervidly
  9. perfervidness
  10. perfervidum ingenium
  11. perfervor

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