fervent

adj.情感强烈的,热烈的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
fervent (adjective)
1.
very hot - glowing
2.
exhibiting or marked by great intensity of feeling - zealous fervent prayers impassioned
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
fervent (adjective)
1.
having or expressing great depth of feeling
SYNONYMS:
ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded
RELATED WORDS:
gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugary; histrionic, melodramatic; enthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealous; enamored, infatuated, obsessed; uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained; frenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated
on fire
NEAR ANTONYMS:
detached, dry, impersonal, objective; reserved, undemonstrative
cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional
fervent (adjective)
2.
having a notably high temperature
SYNONYMS:
ardent, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, piping hot, red, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sultry, superheated, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, white-hot
RELATED WORDS:
blazing, glowing, igneous, molten, seething, sizzling; heated, overheated, reheated, warmed; snug, toasty, warm, warmish; feverish, flushed, inflamed ( enflamed); canicular, muggy, steamy, summerlike, summery, tropical
NEAR ANTONYMS:
chill, chilly, coldish, cool, coolish, nippy, snappy; blizzardly, frosty, snowy, subfreezing, subzero, wintry ( wintery); chilled, cooled, refrigerated, unheated; benumbed, numb, shivering
algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, cold, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, ice-cold, iced, icy
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