passionate
adjective
- having intense feelings
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈpæʃənɪt/ / /ˈpæʃənət/ / /ˈpæʃəneɪt/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.
- Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
“Mandy is a passionate lover.”
- Fired with intense feeling.
“1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93, Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.”
- Suffering; sorrowful.
“She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.”
“Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,”
verb
Etymology: From passion + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French passionner.
- To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
“Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].”
- To express with great emotion.
“Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.”