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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PAS'SIONATE, a.
1. Easily moved to anger; easily excited or agitated by injury or insult; applied to persons.
Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate.
2. Highly excited; vehement; warm; applied to things; as passionate affection; passionate desire; passionate concern.
3. Expressing strong emotion; animated; as passionate eloquence.
PAS'SIONATE, v.t. To affect with passion; to express passionately. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having or expressing strong emotions [ant: passionless]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. a. easily aroused to anger b. filled with anger ; angry 2. a. capable of, affected by, or expressing intense feeling b. enthusiastic, ardent 3. swayed by or affected with sexual desire Synonyms: see impassioned • passionately adverb • passionateness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 dominated by or easily moved to strong feeling, esp. love or anger. 2 showing or caused by passion. Derivatives: passionately adv. passionateness n. Etymology: ME f. med.L passionatus (as PASSION)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Passionate Pas"sion*ate, a. [LL. passionatus: cf. F. passionn['e].] 1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. --Prior. 2. Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship. ``The passionate Pilgrim.'' --Shak. 3. Suffering; sorrowful. [Obs.] --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Passionate Pas"sion*ate, v. i. 1. To affect with passion; to impassion. [Obs.] Great pleasure, mixed with pitiful regard, The godly kind and queen did passionate. --Spenser. 2. To express feelingly or sorrowfully. [Obs.] --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A passionate person has very strong feelings about something or a strong belief in something. ...his passionate commitment to peace... I'm a passionate believer in public art... He is very passionate about the project. ADJ • passionately I am passionately opposed to the death penalty. ADV 2. A passionate person has strong romantic or sexual feelings and expresses them in their behaviour. ...a beautiful, passionate woman of twenty-six. ADJ • passionately He was passionately in love with her... ADV

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Warm, ardent, earnest, vehement, excited, animated, fiery, enthusiastic, fervent, glowing, burning, zealous, violent, furious, impetuous, impulsive, impassioned. 2. Irascible, excitable, choleric, hasty, impatient, touchy, hot, peppery, hot-tempered, angry, quick-tampered, hot-headed, fiery, violent.

Moby Thesaurus

abandoned, ablaze, afire, amative, amatory, amorous, animated, ardent, argumentative, aroused, atrabiliar, atrabilious, attracted, avid, belligerent, bilious, blazing, boiling, boiling over, breathless, burning, burning with excitement, cathectic, choleric, combustible, committed, concerned, concupiscent, contentious, cordial, cranky, cross, curious, dedicated, delirious, desirous, devoted, devout, drunk, eager, earnest, ejaculatory, emotional, emphatic, energetic, enthusiastic, erotic, excited, exciting, explosive, exuberant, faithful, fanatic, fanatical, fascinated, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flaming, flushed, furious, glowing, goatish, hard-core, hasty, headlong, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, high-powered, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffish, huffy, impassioned, impetuous, in earnest, in rut, inflamed, intense, intent, intent on, interested, intoxicated, invigorated, irascible, irritable, itching, keen, keen on, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, lickerish, lively, loverlike, loverly, loyal, lustful, madcap, on fire, orgasmic, orgastic, peevish, peppery, perfervid, piqued, precipitate, provoking, prurient, pugnacious, quarrelsome, quick, quick-tempered, randy, ratty, red-hot, resolute, salacious, satyric, scorching, seething, sensual, serious, sex-starved, sexual, sexually excited, sexy, short-tempered, simmering, sincere, snappish, spirited, spunky, steaming, steamy, stimulated, stimulating, stirring, stormy, sultry, tantalized, temperamental, tempestuous, testy, tetchy, tickled, titillated, tornadic, totally committed, touchy, turned-on, unrestrained, unsatisfied, urgent, vehement, vigorous, violent, volatile, volcanic, warm, white-hot, wild, zealous, zestful