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Adjective fervent has 3 senses
- ardent, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid - characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
Antonym: passionless (indirect, via passionate)
- cordial, fervent - sincerely or intensely felt; "a cordial regard for his visitor's comfort"; "a cordial abhorrence of waste"; "a fervent hope"
Antonym: insincere (indirect, via sincere)
- fervent, fervid - extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope
Antonym: cold (indirect, via hot)
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