Word Meanings - FEVERISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.

Additional info about word: FEVERISH

1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms. 3. Hot; sultry. "The feverish north." Dryden. 4. Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world. Strive to keep up a frail and feverish bing. Milton. -- Fe"ver*ish*ly, adv. -- Fe"ver*ish*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to FEVERISH)

• THIRSTILY
  In a thirsty manner.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• FEVER
  A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• PATIENTLY
  In a patient manner. Cowper.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• INCREASINGLY
  More and more.
• INDICATOR
  A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTER
  One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
• INDICATIVELY
  In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• OMNIPATIENT
  Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• OUT-PATIENT
  A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• TORSION INDICATOR
  An autographic torsion meter.