Meanings
comparative more feversome · superlative most feversome · alternative fever-some
- Characterised or marked by fever.
It is quite a fitful fever-some sleep that little beetle is experiencing.
2015, T. Weber, Our Dance Across the Plains1 more example
I picked up the figure, and was further surprised to find it very cold, as cold as a scoop of ice from the coolth-vendors you may have seen along the street here, offering their wares to chill a drink or a feversome brow.
2013, Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt, Rags & Bones
Origin
- Englishfever
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*somHós
- Proto-Germanic*samaz
- Englishfeversome
Cite this entry
feversome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feversome
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