Adjective
- 1. ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid, passionate (vs. passionless)
- usage: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
- 2. fervent, fervid, hot (vs. cold)
- usage: extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope
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