fertilize, v. 1. fecundate, impregnate, Si. knock up, inseminate, pollinate.
2. fructify, enrich, feed, dress, treat the soil, manure,
fertilizer, n. manure, plant food, compost, dressing, , side-dressing; marl, bone meal, yesterday's gardenias; guano, droppings, dung.
fervent, adj. 1. earnest, eager, animated, enthusiastic, excited; ardent, zealous, Inf. gung-ho, impassioned, passionate; fervid, perfervid; emotional, emotive, temperamental, high-strung; nervous, tense, excitable, touchy, testy, peppery; spirited, high-spirited, volatile, fiery, hot-headed; heated, feverish, white-hot, inflamed, volcanic; frenzied, frantic, crazed, mad, Inf. wild; overwrought, upset, hysterical, not rational; headstrong, stubborn, impetuous, impatient, hasty; sensitive, feeling, sentient, demonstrative, responsive; sensuous, warm, sentimental, deep-feeling; poignant, touching, moving; transported, rapt, enraptured, rapturous, ecstatic.
2. burning, blazing, ablaze, raging, on fire, afire, fiery; flaming, aflame, smoking, ignited; very hot, boiling, scalding, scorching, sizzling; smoldering, simmering, parching; glowing, aglow, gleaming, glaring; very bright, lighted, alight, luminous, illuminated; radiant, brilliant, incandescent,
fervid, adj. 1. fervent, enthusiastic, ardent. See - fervent (def. 1).
2. burning, very hot, glowing. See - fervent (def. 2). fervor, n. 1. fervency, ardor, fervidness, zeal, intensity, passion; enthusiasm, ebullience, exuberance, excitement, elation, elan; eagerness, gusto, delight, relish; verve, vehemence, spirit, vigor, zest, zing, Si. pizzazz; earnestness, intentness, seriousness, devoutness, heartiness, wholeheartedness, sincerity.
2. heat, fire, glow, feverishness,
fester, v. 1. suppurate, gather, matter, maturate, come or draw to a head; run, drain, discharge.
2. ulcerate, sphacelate; mortify, necrose, gangrene, putrefy, putresce.
3. rot, rot away, decay, decompose, disintegrate; corrupt, corrode, canker; spoil, go or turn bad, go off.
4. (all of feelings) rankle, rile, gall, irk, get, get to one, get one's goat; anger, inflame, enflame, stir, stir up, work up; irritate, annoy, torment, vex, plague, bother, fret, chafe, exacerbate, exasperate.
-n. 5. abscess, ulcer, ulceration, noma, festering, gathering, gumboil, parulis, tubercle, Obs. apostem or aposteme or apostume or aposthume, Obs. apostema-tion, Archaic, impostume or imposthume; canker, lesion, chancre, chancroid, soft chancre, simple chancre; boil, blain, furuncle, furunculus, carbuncle, pimple, pustule, papule, papilla, pock, wen, whelk, Rare, bleb, Archaic, botch; sore, open or running sore, excoriation; whitlow, agnail,
festival, n. 1. saint's day, holy day, feast day, Rom. Cath. Ch. holy day of obligation, (in ancient Rome) feria; rite, ritual, ceremony, celebration, observance, keeping; remembrance, memorialization, commemoration.
2. gala day, red-letter day, banner day, field day; holiday, day of rejoicing, occasion, event, birthday, anniversary, jubilee.
3. activities, doings, festivities, fun and games; entertainment, divertissement, refreshment, amusement, regalement.
4. feast, repast, banquet, revel, fete, wassail, festivity; carnival, fair, fun-fair, kermis, Mardi Gras, mi-car€me; social gathering, get-together, reunion, social, aprds-ski; soiree, levee, reception, symposium, housewarming; party, dance, ball, Inf. hop, square dance, Inf. shindig, SI. bash; Inf high jinks, Inf. do, SI. jamboree, SI. wingding; junket, SI. blow-out, SI. bust; frolic, spree, whirl, lark; treat, spread, barbecue; saturnalia, carousal, orgy, debauch, Bacchanalia, Bacchanal.