most 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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Mr. Nézet-Séguin found the score’s oceanic qualities without wallowing in them, holding to its throughline even in the most fervid passages, and making the mood changes between the acts and within them clear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

The most fervid reactions came from Facebook – comments that mocked the student activists for taking on bathroom politics while the school is in the throes of a tuition crisis.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2016

One fascinating development: some of the most fervid volunteers for Benedict's goal of re-evangelizing secular Europe come from the Philippines and several nations in West and Central Africa.

From Time • Feb. 14, 2013

New York's Kenneth B. Keating declared: "They are the most fervid anti-Communists I have ever encountered."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not the most fervid or brilliant of Burke's pieces, yet the speech on Economical Reform is certainly not the least instructive or impressive of them.

From Burke by Morley, John