feverous adjective4 •affected with a fever.How often placed upon the sick man's brow Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth! — 1864 •having the nature of fever •feverish; frenetic •(rare) having a tendency to produce feverFor the soul that was but as a reed in the wind hath attained a Nirvana of calm, And is in this feverous desert of life a fountain of healing and balm, — 1897 formsmore feverous · most feverous