PASSIONATE DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
passionate adj 1: having or expressing strong emotions [ant: passionless] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) passionate 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 English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary passionate 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 English Explanatory Dictionary passionate ˈpæʃənɪt adj. 1 dominated by or easily moved to strong feeling, esp. love or anger. 2 showing or caused by passion. øøpassionately adv. passionateness n. [ME f. med.L passionatus (as PASSION)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms passionate 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. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) passionate ˈpæʃənɪt adj. 1 ardent, eager, intense, fervid, zealous, avid, eager, earnest, zestful, feverish, fanatic(al), vehement, impassioned, emotional, animated, spirited, enthusiastic, vigorous, invigorated, energetic: Passionate environmentalists campaign for better governmental control of carbon dioxide emissions. 2 aroused, lustful, lecherous, erotic, sexual, amorous, sensual, Colloq hot: She tried to resist his passionate advances. 3 quick-tempered, irascible, hotheaded, fiery, testy, huffy or huffish, peevish, cranky, peppery, choleric, touchy, bilious, snappish, volatile, cross, temperamental, irritable, quarrelsome, pugnacious, argumentative, contentious, belligerent, Rare atrabilious or atrabiliar: Valerie gets into a passionate mood whenever she thinks she is being treated unjustly. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 173 Moby Thesaurus words for "passionate": 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 |
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