different between zestful vs fervent

English

Etymology

zest +? -ful

Adjective

zestful (comparative more zestful, superlative most zestful)

1. Having a spirited love of life; ebullient.
   • 1957, Arthur Upfield, Bony Buys a Woman, London: Heinemann, 1967, Chapter 13, p. 117,^[1]

     Debonair youth! The spurs, the wide felt hat, the open shirt, the belt holding the array of small pouches, including a holstered revolver, the delight in the long stock-whip having a bright green silk cracker to produce loud reports, ranging from slow rifle fire to the rat-tat-tat of a machine-gun, all told the story of zestful youth.

2. Eager, enthusiastic.
   • 1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1935, Book 1, § 10, p. 77,^[2]

     […] there appeared a narrowly patriotic government, which presently developed into an aggressive, vindictive and pitiless dictatorship, and set itself at once to the zestful persecution of the unfortunate ethnic minorities […]

   • 1968, Donald Barthelme, “The Dolt” in Sixty Stories, New York: Dutton, 1982, p. 94,^[3]

     […] the former priest, by now habituated to military life, and even zestful for it, enlisted under the new young king, with the rank of captain.

Derived terms

• zestfully
• zestfulness

Translations

Anagrams

• Fultzes, Zufelts

English

Etymology

From Middle English fervent, from Old French fervent, from Latin fervens, ferventem, present participle of fervere (“to boil, ferment, glow, rage”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?.v?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??.v?nt/
• Hyphenation: fer?vent
• Rhymes: -??(?)v?nt

Adjective

fervent (comparative more fervent, superlative most fervent)

1. Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief.
   • 1819, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda, ch. 3:

     As I returned my fervent hopes were dashed by so many fears.

2. Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, or passion.
   • 1876, Wilkie Collins, "Mr. Captain and the Nymph," in Little Novels,

     Never again would those fresh lips touch his lips with their fervent kiss!

3. Glowing, burning, very hot.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Second Epistle of Peter, 3:10:

     But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Derived terms

• fervently

Related terms

• fever
• ferment
• fervid
• fervor

Translations

Further reading

• fervent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fervent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fervent at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ferv?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /f???vent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /f?r?ben/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fe??vent/

Adjective

fervent (masculine and feminine plural fervents)

1. fervent

   Synonym: fervorós

Derived terms

• ferventment

Related terms

• fervor

Further reading

• “fervent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fervent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fervent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fervent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin ferv?ntem, accusative of ferv?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.v??/
• Homophone: fervents

Adjective

fervent (feminine singular fervente, masculine plural fervents, feminine plural ferventes)

1. fervent

Derived terms

• fervemment

Further reading

• “fervent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

fervent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ferve?

Romanian

Etymology

From French fervent, from Latin fervens.

Adjective

fervent m or n (feminine singular fervent?, masculine plural ferven?i, feminine and neuter plural fervente)

1. fervent

Declension