fervescent

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adjective

Growing hotter.

OriginLatin fervescens →
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Meanings

adjectivefervescent (comparative more fervescent, superlative most fervescent)

comparative more fervescent · superlative most fervescent

  1. archaicGrowing hotter.

    Where’s the argentiferous wind-jammer of Nebraska whose fervescent oratory knocked the Chicago Convention head over heels?

    1897 May 13, “Run Here, Somebody”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume LXVII (old series) / XXXII (new series), number 291, Montgomery, Ala.: The Advertiser Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2

Origin

  1. Latinfervescens
  2. Englishfervescent

From Latin fervescens, present participle of fervescere (“to become boiling hot, inchoate”), from fervere. See fervent. By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -escent.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with fervescent

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APA

fervescent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fervescent

MLA

“fervescent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fervescent. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fervescent,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fervescent.

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