English Explanatory Dictionary

fervescent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Growing hotter.

Word forms

fervescent more fervescent most fervescent

Etymology

From Latin fervescens, present participle of fervescere (“to become boiling hot, inchoate”), from fervere. See fervent. By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -escent.

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