fervent
/icons/point.icon IMPASSIONED, PASSIONATE, ARDENT, FERVENT, FERVID, PERFERVID mean showing intense feeling.
IMPASSIONED implies warmth and intensity without violence and suggests fluent verbal expression.
e.g. an impassioned plea for justice
PASSIONATE implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful diffusion of emotion.
e.g. a passionate denunciation
ARDENT implies an intense degree of zeal, devotion, or enthusiasm.
e.g. an ardent supporter of human rights
FERVENT stresses sincerity and steadiness of emotional warmth or zeal.
e.g. fervent good wishes
FERVID suggests warmly and spontaneously and often feverishly expressed emotion.
e.g. fervid love letters
PERFERVID implies the expression of exaggerated or overwrought feelings.
e.g. perfervid expressions of patriotism
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adjective
having or displaying a passionate intensity:
(感情･気候などの)強烈(さ), 激しさ; (行動などの)熱心さ
e.g. a fervent disciple of tax reform.
archaic hot, burning, or glowing.
〘物理〙 (熱･光･音などの)強度, 強さ
DERIVATIVES
fervency | ˈfərv(ə)nsē | noun
ORIGIN
Middle English: via Old French from Latin fervent- ‘boiling’, from the verb fervere. Compare with fervid and fervor.