more fervid

ADJECTIVE

enthusiastic, excited

Synonyms

WEAK

animated ardent blazing burning devout dying to eager earnest ecstatic emotional enthused falling all over oneself fiery glowing go great guns heartfelt hearty hot hot-blooded impassioned intense passionate perfervid pious religious responsive serious sincere unfeigned vehement warm warmhearted wholehearted zealous

Antonyms

WEAK

cool discouraged dispirited impassive uncaring unenthusiastic unexcited

ADJECTIVE

passionate

Synonyms

WEAK

ardent impassioned

Antonyms

WEAK

half-hearted

Example Sentences

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Our parasocial investment in stars is worlds more fervid, but now that women are also superstars, those old ways are mostly dead as long as you hold sufficient capital.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

And they better, because the people coming after them are in all likelihood more fervid than they are.

From Time • Feb. 14, 2014

But then there are the Gaza settlers from a younger, more fervid generation, including more recent American recruits like Haim Gross, 30.

From Time Magazine Archive

None of the targeted bases, though, has defenders more fervid than the partisans of three East Coast naval shipyards: at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Charleston, South Carolina; and Norfolk, Virginia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stupendous crags, often streaked with snow, lose themselves in the scud of the ocean which is almost constantly flying eastward to be absorbed in the more fervid sunshine of up-river.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by Lyman, William Denison