Synonyms and Antonyms of fever
1
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning
- before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that
affection, ail, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness, trouble
contagion, contagious disease
contagium, infection
attack, bout, fit, spell
debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, weakness
malaise, matter, pip
epidemic, pest, pestilence, plague
2
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
- in the fever of a political campaign a lot of things get said that never should have been said
agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, feverishness, flap, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, hysteria, rage, rampage, uproar
chaos, confusion, disorder, havoc, pandemonium, turmoil
bedlam, bother, brouhaha, bustle, clamor, clatter, commotion, disturbance, fuss, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, squall, stew, stir, storm, tempest, to-do, tumult
calm, calmness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, quietude, repose, restfulness, sereneness, serenity, still, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility), tranquilness
