(adjective) very hot; burning / (adjective) marked by often extreme fervor
Fervid is the next level up; it connotes even more passion/devotion/eagerness than fervent. At the top is perfervid, which means extravagantly, rabidly, uncontrollably zealous or impassioned.
In he came, tense but confident, holding the attention of the room with a fervid speech begging the Soviet to acquiesce to this coalition
Kerensky