passionate

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈpæʃənɪt/
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/ˈpæʃənɪt/ · /ˈpæʃənət/ · /ˈpæʃəneɪt/

Definition of passionate

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
    “Mandy is a passionate lover.”
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adj

  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. (obsolete)Suffering; sorrowful.
    “She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.”
    “Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,”

verb

  1. (obsolete)To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
    “Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].”
  2. (obsolete)To express with great emotion.
    “Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.

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