What's the difference between feverish and jumpy?

Feverish


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
  • (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
  • (a.) Hot; sultry.
  • (a.) Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) HuIFN-alpha 2 administration did not decrease the occurrence of illnesses associated with rhinorrhea, cough, or feverishness as compared to placebo, but the number of laboratory-documented respiratory viral infections was small (6 HuIFN-alpha 3 placebo).
  • (2) A man aged 54 years presented multiple symptoms (acroparesthesia, familial deafness, cardiomyopathy, diarrhea, adenopathy with infiltration of frothy macrophages, pancytopenia with a dense marrow, chronic meningitis, renal failure) associated with intermittent fever, with feverish attacks and a temperature of 40 degrees C, and with a severe biologic febrile syndrome.
  • (3) Respiratory and feverish clinical signs of the disease were observed in infected animals.
  • (4) There are plenty of programs available through the Android Market (and Google is, of course, encouraging armies of coders to feverishly build more), but there is still nowhere near the volume you can get for Apple's gizmo.
  • (5) The results of this study suspected that acute feverish disease and pneumonia of compromised host such as hemodialysis patients should be always thought of Legionnaires' infection.
  • (6) Special attention is paid to an analysis of the feverish syndrome.
  • (7) Sevilla attacked feverishly right at the end but were never really in it after the first goal went in.
  • (8) The mechanic said the smell was overwhelming and the child seemed "dehydrated, very, very dirty and feverish".
  • (9) He presented dysphagia and he was feverish, the overlying skin of the neck swelling was erythematous and warm.
  • (10) Among them was a patient who had been wheeled in the previous evening , feverish and vomiting, diagnosed with severe malaria.
  • (11) Click here to listen Not that they're really making the outrageously adventurous amalgam of Hollywood musicals and Miles Davis fusion that they feverishly imagine.
  • (12) Infected abortions with clinical manifestations of septicemia are sometimes classified as "high-fever abortions" or "feverish abortions" with "septic abortion" syndrome.
  • (13) The mother had a feverish illness at the 7th month of gestation, diagnosed by family doctor as influenza.
  • (14) Nowhere is the Sarah Brown craze more feverish than on the internet.
  • (15) He became confused, feverish, and developed florid retinal vasculitis with associated visual impairment.
  • (16) The first patient (27 years-old) remained feverish.
  • (17) It may be helpful in separating the child with simple convulsions due to fever from the child whose epileptic dysrhythmia first finds outward expression while he is feverish.
  • (18) I can’t criticise a doctor because I’m not a doctor.” With Guardiola at City and Mourinho at United , Manchester is about to become an even more feverish centre of football.
  • (19) The battle over how the UK should meet its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 is at its most feverish in the energy sector.
  • (20) She was placed in an isolation unit at Glasgow’s Gartnavel hospital after becoming feverish, before being transferred by an RAF Hercules plane to London.

Jumpy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standoff has become a personal battle for the soul of the French right, a contest between Sarkozy’s jumpy and divisive personality and Juppé’s pipe-and-slippers calm.
  • (2) "Security forces have been on high alert for the last six days, jumpy, and were concerned that something might happen.
  • (3) "Jumpy" guards failed to recognise their leader and opened fire on a perceived security threat.
  • (4) However, Cameron has always been jumpy about highlighting these differences, acutely aware of the history of Downing Street battles, including Blair-Brown.
  • (5) Lewis was also aware that many in the unionist community were extremely jumpy about Corbyn’s Irish republican politics, and he thought his continued presence might reassure.
  • (6) The jumpy mood over MPs' behaviour was heightened when Fabricant was suddenly sacked for a series of injudicious tweets, including one saying it was about time Miller was sacked.
  • (7) Labour strategists were, in private, hilariously paranoid and jumpy, like dogs cowering at a firework display David Hare It was this kind of human weakness and fallibility that, up close, made the Labour party 20-odd years ago so sympathetic.
  • (8) Jay Pharoah and Shasheer Zamata’s Jay Z and Solange impressions were flawless, as was Keenan Thompson as Jay’s jumpy bodyguard and Maya Rudolph as Beyoncé.
  • (9) Twelve who retained 72 per cent of the load were normal or small at birth, amply fed on demand, and grew at accelerated rates, increasing from the 50th to the 88th mean percentile by ten weeks, when they were "fat, hungry, jumpy babies," exemplifying the Mg deficiency syndrome of growth.
  • (10) Arsenal were by turns sluggish, incisive and oddly jumpy as Olivier Giroud scored at both ends, one Sunderland’s equaliser, the other the second of his side’s three goals.
  • (11) Two-week-old pups of both strains showed good acquisition and retention in learning tests without shock, but the "jumpy" behavior disturbed performance to a certain degree in the SRH strain.
  • (12) Mauritanian sources said "jumpy" military guards at a checkpoint mistook Abdel Aziz, who was returning to the capital, Nouakchott, after a trip to the desert, for a security threat.
  • (13) Investors have become jumpy about any potential threat to the publisher's balance sheet should the civil cases result in damages payments.
  • (14) In the meantime, survivors of major catastrophes who experience acute symptoms of PTSD such as insomnia, nightmares, and jumpiness should be observed for nonresolution of symptoms over time, especially if there is a premorbid history of psychopathology or character problems.
  • (15) It is guarded by jumpy soldiers who permit no vehicle to stop near it, let alone any photographs.
  • (16) I get jumpy when someone honks their horn, and occasionally I have bad dreams and wake up at night, my wife asking me: “What’s up?”, and I tell her I’m being chased by Germans.
  • (17) The Tory scramble for a riposte shows how jumpy they are – and with good reason.
  • (18) When he affirmed that he did, I said that Tonight's the Night seemed like the inevitable culmination of the path Young blazed with Time Fades Away – his jumpy, nearly-out-of-control live album – and the intensely introspective On the Beach.
  • (19) Brussels attacker 'caught in Turkey last June', Turkish president says – live Read more On the first of three days of national mourning, the mood in the city was at once proud and sad, defiant and jumpy.
  • (20) The best new play category is between One Man, Two Guvnors, The Ladykillers, Collaborators and Jumpy , which was at the Royal Court and transfers to the West End this year.