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If you do something with alacrity, you do it eagerly and quickly.
When you have ardor for something, you have an intense feeling of love, excitement, and admiration for it.
A catatonic person is in a state of suspended action; therefore, they are rigid, immobile, and unresponsive.
If something moves or grows with celerity, it does so rapidly.
Someone who is ebullient is filled with enthusiasm, very happy, and extremely excited about something.
An effervescent individual is lively, very happy, and enthusiastic.
If you describe a person, group, or civilization as effete, you mean it is weak, exhausted, powerless, unproductive, and/or corrupt.
If you feel enervated, you feel very tired and weak—almost to the point of collapse.
If you show exuberance, you display great excitement, energy, and enthusiasm.
A fervid person has strong feelings about something, such as a humanitarian cause; therefore, they are very sincere and enthusiastic about it.
Frenetic activity is done quickly with lots of energy but is also uncontrolled and disorganized; someone who is in a huge hurry often displays this type of behavior.
An indolent person is lazy.
When something is inert, it has no power of movement or is inactive.
If you do something in a lackadaisical way, you do it carelessly and without putting much effort into it—thereby showing that you are not really interested in what you’re doing.
A languid person is slow, relaxed, and shows little energy or interest in doing anything.
If you are lethargic, you are tired, lack energy, and are unwilling to exert effort.
When you are listless, you lack energy and interest and are unwilling to exert any effort.
Someone who is phlegmatic stays calm and unemotional even in dangerous or exciting situations.
If you are in a state of repose, your mind is at peace or your body is at rest.
When you saunter along, you are taking a stroll or slow walk from one place to another.
Someone who has a sedentary habit, job, or lifestyle spends a lot of time sitting down without moving or exercising often.
If your body is affected by torpor, you are severely lacking in energy; therefore, you are idle—and can even be numb.
Someone who is zealous spends a lot of time, energy, and effort to support something— notably that of a political or religious nature—because they believe in it very strongly.
Adj.
febrile
FEB-ruhl
Context
During the holidays, my mother became febrile; not only was she feverish, but was also filled with nervous and hectic energy. She never stopped moving, despite running a temperature; instead of resting, she went from one preparation to the next in a constant blur of febrile, feverish activity. When I offered to do some of the holiday cooking, she turned down my help and continued to scurry about the house in a highly excited, nervous, and febrile effort to make everything perfect. Unfortunately, the activity became too much for her, which caused her febrile temperature to peak at 105.
Fever-riled This worsening fever of his had him all riled up to the point where he was feeling fever-riled and febrile.
Examples
Nor is it 'wild speculation' to accuse the jury of bias when one of its members rushes to the cameras immediately after the verdict with the left’s febrile theory of the case and that is demonstrably what Denis Collins did.
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Newsvine
Lush, extravagant, sad and touching, this film version of 'Love in the Time of Cholera' still feels weirdly insubstantial when all the febrile passion has abated.
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The Washington Post
James Brown and Otis Redding have long been cited as Toots Hibbert’s chief influences, but Hibbert’s febrile Pentecostal histrionics really owe a great deal to Jamaican gospel-ska groups like Basil Gabbidon’s Mellowlarks.
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Rolling Stone
Such was the febrile atmosphere within the Jamaican camp that 25 of them — half the athletics team — marched in protest in the athletes village earlier on Monday holding banners saying 'Merlene out, Peta in, Relays out'.
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Sports Illustrated
