Passionate

Quick meaning: Passionate is an adjective meaning Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.

Meaning

Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.

More Meanings

1. Fired with intense feeling.
2. (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
3. (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
4. (obsolete) To express with great emotion.

Example Sentences

Mandy is a passionate lover.

Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.

Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].

Word Forms

• passionates
• passionating
• passionated

Synonyms for passionate

Depending on context, synonyms include ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid.

Antonyms for passionate

Common opposites include dispassionate, passionless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include impassioned, ardent, fervid, fervent, perfervid, lusty.

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