feverish

English

Etymology tree

English fever

Proto-Indo-European *-iskos

Proto-Germanic *-iskaz

Proto-West Germanic *-isk

Old English -isċ

Middle English -ish

English -ish

English feverish

From fever + -ish.

feverish (comparative more feverish, superlative most feverish)

Having a fever, an elevated body temperature.
The illness made him feverish, so they applied cold compresses.
- 2020 December 7, Kristen Rogers, “Think your normal temperature is 98.6? Maybe not (and why that’s important)”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 October 2022:
  People who feel warm or provide a history of feeling feverish may also be determined to have a fever.
Filled with excess energy.
He worked with feverish excitement.
Morbidly eager.
a feverish desire to see her again
- 2018 October 9, Miles Maochun Yu, “China's Final Solution In Xinjiang”, in Hoover Institution‎^[2], archived from the original on 14 March 2019:
  Toward this objective, China's recent three supreme leaders, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and the incumbent Xi Jinping, all embrace such a new security agenda and engage in feverish Xinjiang ethnic pacification and military buildup campaigns, with each of the three leaders having his own landmark event in implementing this Xinjiang final solution.

in the state of having a fever — see also fevered

filled with excess energy — see also fevered