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Fevered vs Pyretic - What's the difference?

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Fevered is a related term of pyretic.


As adjectives the difference between fevered and pyretic

is that fevered is affected by a fever; feverish while pyretic is caused by, pertaining to or resulting in fever.

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

    pyretic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Caused by, pertaining to or resulting in fever.
  • Anagrams

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