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passionate

adjective

  1. having intense feelings
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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.

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

    Mandy is a passionate lover.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  1. To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.

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

  2. To express with great emotion.

    Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.