adjective
- Characterized by intense emotion.
- usage: "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
- 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
- synonyms: fervent
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