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fevered
This term describes a state of intense, often unstable excitement or agitation. While it can refer to a literal medical fever, it is most frequently employed in a figurative sense to describe a mind or atmosphere gripped by obsession, anxiety, or frantic energy. It suggests a loss of calm and a heightened, almost delirious level of activity.
In literary or formal contexts, it often conveys a sense of desperation or urgency, such as a fevered pace or fevered imagination. It differs from "excited" by implying a degree of instability or unhealthy intensity, bordering on the manic.
Meanings
Examples
The child lay in a fevered sleep and tossed and turned all night.
He mumbled incoherent words in his fevered state.
He mumbled incoherent words in his fevered state.
The city was gripped by a fevered anticipation as the election results approached.
I can see the fevered look in his eyes as he describes his plan.
The stock market entered a fevered pace during the final hour of trading.
Stop this fevered rushing and just think for a second.
My mind is a fevered mess of doubts and desires.
Collocations & Compounds
fevered imagination
Noun collocation: a mind prone to wild, unrealistic, or anxious fantasies
His fevered imagination convinced him that the house was haunted.
fevered activity
Noun collocation: a state of frantic or hurried work and movement
fevered haste
Noun collocation: extreme and often panicked urgency in doing something
fevered delirium
Noun collocation: a state of mental confusion caused by a high fever