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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

expressing strong feelings or support for, being overzealous;

e.g. She is an ardent soccer fan.

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Similar Words

Agleam

Aglitter

Agog

Antsy

Anxious

Avid

Blazing

Blinding

Boiling

Burning

Charged

Competitive

Demonstrative

Desirous

Eager

Emotional

Enthused

Enthusiastic

Excited

Fatherly

Fervent

Fervid

Feverish

Fiery

Flaming

Flashing

Forgiving

Geeked

Gemmy

Glancing

Great

Greedy

Gung ho

High-flying

Hopped-up

Hot

Hot-blooded

Hungry

Igneous

Impassioned

Impatient

Incandescent

Intense

Juiced

Knee-deep

Lovesick

Lush

Molten

Motivated

Nuts

Opportunistic

Overheated

Passionate

Perfervid

Pumped

Raring

Red

Red-hot

Religious

Scalding

Scintillant

Scorching

Searing

Solicitous

Stoked

Sultry

Superbright

Superheated

Sweltering

Thirsty

Torrid

Twinkling

Ultrabright

Ultrahot

Unreluctant

Vehement

Voracious

Warm

Warm-blooded

White-hot

Wild

Zealous

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Opposite Words

Affectless

Aloof

Apathetic

Arctic

Averse

Casual

Chill

Chilly

Cold

Cold-blooded

Complacent

Cool

Cryogenic

Detached

Disinclined

Disinterested

Disloyal

Dry

Emotionless

Faithless

False

Fickle

Frigid

Frosty

Glacial

Half-hearted

Hesitant

Icy

Impassive

Impersonal

Inconstant

Incurious

Indifferent

Insensible

Lackadaisical

Languid

Languorous

Loath

Loathe

Loth

Lukewarm

Nipping

Nippy

Nonchalant

Numb

Numbing

Objective

Perfidious

Perfunctory

Phlegmatic

Platonic

Polar

Recreant

Reluctant

Reserved

Snappy

Snowy

Spiritless

Stoic

Stolid

Stone-faced

Subfreezing

Subzero

Tepid

Traitorous

Treacherous

Unbright

Unbrilliant

Uncaring

Unconcerned

Uncurious

Undemonstrative

Uneager

Unemotional

Unenthusiastic

Unfaithful

Unheated

Unimpressed

Uninterested

Uninvolved

Unloving

Unmoved

Unresponsive

Untrue

Unwilling

Wintry

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Related Words

Affectionate

Ambitious

Amenable

Aspiring

Bedazzling

Blazing

Breathless

Bright

Brilliant

Candescent

Clear

Constant

Covetous

Craving

Dazzling

Dedicated

Devoted

Devout

Down-the-line

Enamored

Engaged

Faithful

Fast

Feverish

Fiery

Flushed

Fond

Frenzied

Fulgent

Game

Good

Gushy

Hard-driving

Hearty

Heated

High-spirited

Histrionic

Igneous

Incandescent

Inclined

Infatuated

Interested

Keen

Lambent

Longing

Loving

Loyal

Lucent

Lucid

Luminous

Lustrous

Maudlin

Mawkish

Mettlesome

Molten

Muggy

Mushy

Nationalist

Obsessed

Overexcited

Overheated

Peppery

Pious

Pushing

Queer

Radiant

Ready

Restive

Restless

Saccharine

Sappy

Seething

Self-seeking

Sentimental

Shining

Shiny

Sloppy

Snug

Spirited

Splendid

Spunky

Stanch

Staunch

Steadfast

Steady

Steamy

Sugary

Summery

Tenderhearted

The

Toasty

Tropical

True

True-blue

Uninhibited

Unreluctant

Unreserved

Unrestrained

Wholehearted

Willing

Zealous

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