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What is the adjective for feverish?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb fever which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

feverish
  1. In the state of having a fever, to have an elevated body temperature.
  2. Filled with excess energy.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. burning, fiery, hot, fevered, febrile, torrid, blazing, pyretic, flaming, flushed, superheated, incandescent, sweating, warm, inflamed, delirious, shivering, glowing, hectic, aguey, red-hot, burning up, with a temperature, on fire, above normal, with a high temperature, running a temperature, sweltering, heated, scorching, feverous, boiling, broiling, searing, sultry, roasting, baking, blistering, scalding, red, sizzling, tropical, parching, steaming, humid, tropic, piping, stuffy, close, sweltry … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “He wished for a doctor, a sterile hospital bed, a cool hand on his feverish forehead.”
      “Never in its history had that little school seen such feverish activity.”
      “She has done mighty things already, but the only result for her is a feverish desire to do more.”
fevered
  1. Affected by a fever; feverish.
  2. heated, impassioned
  3. Synonyms:
      4. burning, hot, febrile, flushed, feverish, pyretic, heated, inflamed, sweating, febrific, burning up, on fire, fiery, torrid, blazing, sweltering, scorching, boiling, searing, broiling, roasting, sultry, flaming, scalding, blistering, baking, red, sizzling, superheated, tropical, parching, red-hot, warm, incandescent, ardent, ultrahot, like an oven, feverous, fervid, fervent, steaming, humid, boiling hot, tropic, white-hot, piping, piping hot, close, igneous, stuffy … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Your face is all red and, unless I am mistaken, that is sweat on your fevered brow.”
      “I do not see why we should agitate our already fevered minds by these false notions.”
      “Stuffed into the church, the congregation watched the preacher give his sermon with a fevered zeal.”
feverlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fever.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. aguelike
feversome
  1. Characterised or marked by fever
feverless
  1. Without a fever.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. afebrile, apyretic, apyrexial, non-febrile, without fever
fevery
  1. (obsolete) feverish
fevering
  1. present participle of fever
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