What does feverous mean?
Feverous means affected with a fever..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
affected with a fever..
1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230, O all wide places, far from feverous towns! Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!
How often placed upon the sick man's brow Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!
Who feels his temples newly feverous.
Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds
a feverous disposition of the year
For the soul that was but as a reed in the wind hath attained a Nirvana of calm, And is in this feverous desert of life a fountain of healing and balm,
Use feverous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Feverous means affected with a fever..
Common synonyms include sick, ill, feverish.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230, O all wide places, far from feverous towns! Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!
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