Definitions for fervent

Overview of adj fervent

The adj fervent has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (3) ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid

(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

(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)