Passionate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Capable of, having, or dominated by powerful emotions: a family of passionate personalities.
  • adj. Wrathful by temperament; choleric.
  • adj. Marked by strong sexual desire; amorous or lustful.
  • adj. Showing or expressing strong emotion; ardent: a passionate speech against injustice.
  • adj. Arising from or marked by passion: a teacher who is passionate about her subject.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
  • adj. Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
  • n. A passionate individual.
  • v. To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered.
  • adj. Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm.
  • adj. Suffering; sorrowful.
  • verb-intransitive. To affect with passion; to impassion.
  • verb-intransitive. To express feelingly or sorrowfully.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To affect with passion; move to anger, hate, love, etc.
  • To portray with natural emotion or passion; personate.
  • Characterized by passion; exhibiting or expressing passion.
  • Showing or exciting strong emotion; highly excited; vehement; warm.
  • Swayed by love; consumed with passion.
  • (d ) Emotional; susceptible.
  • (e ) Changeful; capricious; of many moods.
  • (f ) Compassionate.
  • (g ) Sorrowful; pitiful.
  • Synonyms Irritable, etc. (see irascible), hot-headed, hot, fiery, violent, choleric.
  • Impassioned, ardent, fervent, glowing, burning, impetuous.
  • n. One who is strongly moved by passion, especially the passion of love.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having or expressing strong emotions
  • Equivalent
    wild    choleric    impassioned    overzealous    concupiscent    rabid    perfervid    ardent    aroused    fanatic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    irascible    quick-tempered    vehement    warm    suffering    sorrowful    impassion    intense    angry    frantic   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fierce    eager    ardent    angry    emotional    romantic