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fever [fee-ver]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of high temperature or agitation
Synonyms: burning up, delirium, ecstasy, excitement, febrile disease, ferment, fervor, fire, flush, frenzy, heat, intensity, passion, pyrexia, restlessness, running a temperature, the shakes, turmoil, unrest
Antonyms: chill, coldness, freeze, frigidity
Main Entry: delirium
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: madness
Synonyms: aberration, ardor, dementia, derangement, ecstasy, enthusiasm, fervor, fever, frenzy, furor, fury, hallucination, hysteria, insanity, lunacy, mania, passion, rage, raving, transport, zeal
Antonyms: balance, calmness, saneness
Main Entry: disease
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ailment, affliction
Synonyms: ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, flu, hemorrhage, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, pathosis, plague, seizure, sickliness, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, unhealthiness, unsoundness, upset, virus, visitation
Notes: decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning
illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
Antonyms: health
Example Sentences
  • Yellow fever is caused by a small virus that is spread by the bite of mosquitoes.
  • Tylenol brought the fever down, but she woke up the next morning vomiting and feeling achy and weak.
  • The boy started vomiting, got diarrhoea and ran a fever.
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Main Entry: enthusiasm
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: keen interest, excitement
Synonyms: activity, ardency, ardor, avidity, conviction, craze, dash, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, ecstasy, emotion, energy, exhilaration, fad, fanaticism, feeling, fervor, fever, fieriness, fire, flame, flare, frenzy, fury, gaiety, glow, go*, heat, hilarity, hobby, impetuosity, intensity, interest, joy, joyfulness, keenness, life, mania, mirth, nerve, oomph, orgasm, passion, pep, rapture, red heat, relish, snap, spirit, transport, vehemence, verve, vim, vivacity, warmth, zeal, zealousness, zest, élan
Antonyms: aloofness, apathy, coldness, coolness, doubt, indifference, lethargy, pessimism, weariness
Main Entry: excitement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enthusiasm; incitement
Synonyms: action, activity, ado, adventure, agitation, animation, bother, buzz*, commotion, confusion, discomposure, disturbance, dither, drama, elation, emotion, excitation, feeling, ferment, fever, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hurry, hysteria, impulse, instigation, intoxication, kicks, melodrama, motivation, motive, movement, passion, perturbation, provocation, rage, stimulation, stimulus, stir, thrill, titillation, to-do, trepidation, tumult, turmoil, urge, warmth, wildness
Antonyms: apathy, boredom, calm, calmness, dullness, lull, peace
Main Entry: ferment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: agitation, uprising
Synonyms: ailment, brouhaha, clamor, commotion, convulsion, disquiet, disquietude, disruption, disturbance, excitement, fever, flap, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat, hell broke loose, hubbub, imbroglio, outcry, restiveness, restlessness, row, rumble, scene, state of unrest, stew, stink*, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval, uproar, upturn
Antonyms: calm, contentedness, happiness, peace, pleasure
Main Entry: frenzy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uncontrolled state or situation
Synonyms: aberration, agitation, blow, blow a fuse, blow one's cork, blow one's stack, blow one's top, bout, burst, conniption, convulsion, craze, delirium, derangement, distemper, distraction, dithers, excitement, ferment, fever, fit, flap, flip one's lid, free-for-all, furor, fury, fuss, hell broke loose, hysteria, insanity, lather, lunacy, madness, mania, outburst, paroxysm, passion, rage, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, seizure, spasm, stew, stir, to-do, transport, turmoil, wingding
Antonyms: calmness, peace, peacefulness
Main Entry: heat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: high temperature
Synonyms: calefaction, calidity, dog days, fever, fieriness, greenhouse effect, heatwave, hot spell, hot weather, hotness, incalescence, incandescence, sultriness, swelter, torridity, torridness, warmness, warmth
Antonyms: cold, cool
Main Entry: heat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: anger, passion
Synonyms: agitation, ardor, desire, earnestness, excitement, ferocity, fervor, fever, fury, impetuosity, intensity, rage, vehemence, violence, warmth, zeal
Antonyms: coolness, disinterest, frigidity
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