fervent
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈfɜrvənt/
- Archaic
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ardiente
- The metal glowed with a fervent heat, making it easy to shape into the desired form.
Examples
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That's why it's so fervent in open-air latrines like Somalia.
Blog text (29) -
The sea robs a half meter of land, and the Dutch rob back two meters from the water's fervent heart.
Fiction book (1995) -
So melt the elements, with fervent heat.
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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
Blog text (2) -
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Blog text (24) -
He had installed a fervent showering bath of fluorescent light overhead.
Fiction book (1998) -
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up" (2 Peter 3:10).
Academic text (2018) -
In the desert, the sun emitted a fervent heat that made it difficult to stay outside for long.
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As the fireworks exploded, they burned with a fervent heat, lighting up the night sky.
Synonyms
44
3.6
Very hot and like burning flames
7
6.0
Burning with fire or full of strong feeling such as desire
6
4.1
So warm it glows red
1
9.9
Extremely hot and burning, like red metal in a fire
Burning with a bright fire or very bright color
Extremely hot, like the inside of an oven
Very hot, with high temperature or strong spice
Shining with a strong, bright light
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
fervent = fervor (opaque) = ferv + ent
The archaic sense 'extremely hot' is not derivable by a typical learner from the modern noun 'fervor', so the relation is historically direct but not transparent to learners.
Etymology
Fervent originally meant 'very hot' and comes from the Latin fervere 'to boil', so writers once used it for burning heat, and that warm, burning idea helps explain why it now means intense, strong feeling.