fervid

UK/ˈfɜː.vɪd/US/ˈfɝ.vɪd/

adjectiveC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Fervid means burning with intense feeling. A fervid supporter.

It sits close to fervent and carries a faint suggestion of too much. Fervid is used of belief and of prose, and rarely as a compliment about either.

Definitions of fervid

1adjectivefervidBurning with intense feeling.C2
“The fervid tone of the letter did it no good.”

fervid is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin fervidus, from fervere, to boil, which also gives fervent and effervescent.

Proto-Indo-European
*bʰrewh₁-
Latin
fervidus
English, today
fervid

Borrowed from Latin fervidus. Latin fervidus, from ferveō. by surface analysis, ferv- + id.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

fervid in the wild

Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life.
Napoleon Hill
Schiff recalled some years later, "I went to sleep that night, still wrestling with the problem," he wrote, in typically fervid style.
Arthur Schiff
According to Telemundo, these fervid tales are "inspired by real-life cases of everyday heroes".
Decisiones
During Reconstruction the editor, Josiah Turner, conducted a fervid campaign against carpetbaggers.
Raleigh Sentinel
Despite fervid community protests and registration as a National Historic Place, the old museum fell.
Zealandia (Asheville, North Carolina)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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