fevered
Hot with illness
Fevered describes the state of having or resembling a fever—hot, flushed, agitated.
A fevered brow is warm to the touch.
More often the word is figurative: a fevered imagination runs wild with anxious or obsessive thoughts, fevered speculation spreads rapidly.
The word suggests intensity verging on illness, activity that has become unhealthy or frantic.
Extreme in degree
- ardentIntensely enthusiastic or devoted
- zealousPassionately eager and active
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
impassioned · animated · spirited · energetic · vigorous · forceful · emphatic · stirring
Perceptions without external cause
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
- incoherenceFailure to make sense
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
delirium · babbling · lightheadedness · dizziness · stupor · foggy · befuddled · bewildered
Reddened from emotion
- burningCombustion in progress
- sweatingMoisture through pores
- clammyMoist and cool
- overheatedExcessively warm
warm · perspiring · damp · radiating · glowing · scalding · parched · throbbing
intense
Extreme in degree
- ardentIntensely enthusiastic or devoted
- zealousPassionately eager and active
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
fiery · impassioned · animated · spirited · energetic · vigorous · forceful · emphatic · stirring · heated
hallucinations
Perceptions without external cause
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
- incoherenceFailure to make sense
rambling · delirium · babbling · lightheadedness · dizziness · stupor · foggy · befuddled · bewildered · unsettled
flushed
Reddened from emotion
overheated · warm · perspiring · damp · radiating · glowing · scalding · parched · throbbing · brow
frantic
Wildly anxious or desperate
- manicAbnormally elevated, agitated
- hystericalEmotionally out of control
- wildNot domesticated or controlled
crazed · overwrought · chaotic · restless · desperate · panicked · excitable · turbulent · hectic · breathless
infection
Pathogen invasion causing illness
- virusMicroscopic infectious agent
- fluContagious respiratory illness
- chillsShivering spells from illness
sick · malaise · contagion · symptom · typhoid · malaria · disease · sepsis · inflammation · ailment
- feversparatyphoid
- uneasyanxious, nervous, jittery, edgy, tense
- scary feelingsterrified, frightening, dreadful, creepiness, goosebumps
- insanityinsane, crazy, mad, lunatic, insanity
- hay feverAllergic rhinitis from pollen
- high feverElevated body temperature, alarming
- cabin feverDistress from extended confinement
- run a feverHave above-normal temperature
- running a feverHaving elevated body temperature
- fever dreamHallucinatory episode during illness