febrile

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Feverish, or having a high temperature.
    — Aurora's orange sun (Baley scarcely noted the orange tinge now) was mildly warm on his back, lacking the febrile heat that Earth's sun had in summer (but, then, what was the climate and season on this portion of Aurora right now?).
  2. Involving fever as a symptom or cause.
  3. Full of nervous energy. figuratively
    — An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.

词形变化

more febrile comparative most febrile superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
afebrile antefebrile antifebrile febrilise febrility febrilize intrafebrile nonfebrile postfebrile subfebrile unfebrile

词源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin febrīlis, from Latin febris (“fever”). By surface analysis, Latin febr- + -ile.
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