Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Producing fever.
  • adjective Having a fever; feverish.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Producing fever; feverish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Producing fever.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Feverish, inflamed.
  • adjective Hot-tempered.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin febris, fever + –fic.]

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