aguish

1 9.9

Suffering from fever and chills

adjective
/ˈæɡwɪʃ/

Archaic

: febril

He feels aguish today.

Examples

After walking through the marshes, he felt aguish and weak from the lingering fever.
The patient's aguish chills lasted throughout the long winter night.
Her aguish appearance concerned the village doctor who suspected another case of malaria.
Don't look so aguish!
After a long illness, she felt aguish and struggled to get out of bed.
The aguish symptoms left him shivering under the warm blankets.
When the fever hit, he became aguish, experiencing chills throughout the night.

Synonyms

feverish

vsaguish

13 3.5

Having a higher than normal body temperature and feeling weak

emphasizes chills and shaking alongside the fever symptoms

How Ill

grave

Formal

165 4.2

aguish

Archaic

1 9.9

feverish

13 3.5

sick

∞ 1.0

unwell

18 1.0

Surface Forms

aguish positive

Morphology

aguish = ague (semi-transparent) = ague + ish

The suffix '-ish' typically means 'having the quality of', but the base word 'ague' is not commonly known.

Etymology

Aguish comes from ague, an old word for 'fever and chills' and from a root that meant 'sharp', like the English word acute. So if someone is aguish, they are suffering from fever and chills.