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Febrile vs Fevered - What's the difference?

febrile | fevered |

As adjectives the difference between febrile and fevered

is that febrile is febrile, feverous, feverish while fevered is affected by a fever; feverish.

febrile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feverish, or having a high temperature.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1983 , isbn=0-553-29949-2 , date= , author=(Isaac Asimov) , title=(The Robots of Dawn) , url= , page=116 , chapter=22 , passage=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?). }}
  • Full of nervous energy.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}

    Synonyms

    * (feverish): flushed, hot * (full of energy): energetic, excited

    Related terms

    * febrility * subfebrile

    fevered

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Affected by a fever; feverish.
  • heated, impassioned
  • * {{quote-news, year=2014
    • , date=November 14 , author=Stephen Halliday , title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.}}
  • * 2010 , Noam Chomsky, The Iranian threat , Z Magazine, vol 23, number 7:
    • To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.

    Derived terms

    * unfevered