passionate
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/ˈpæʃənɪt/
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/ˈpæʃənɪt/ · /ˈpæʃənət/ · /ˈpæʃəneɪt/
Definition of passionate
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
“Mandy is a passionate lover.”
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adj
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Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
“Mandy is a passionate lover.”
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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.”
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(obsolete)Suffering; sorrowful.
“She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.”
“Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,”
verb
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(obsolete)To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
“Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].”
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(obsolete)To express with great emotion.
“Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.”
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Etymology
From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.
Words you can make from passionate
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Best play saponites 11 points8-letter words
14 words7-letter words
65 words- ANAPEST 9 pts
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6-letter words
109 words- ANOPIA 8 pts
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- TAENIA 6 pts
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- TISANE 6 pts
5-letter words
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