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Webster 1913 Edition
Passionate
Pas′sion-ate
,Adj.
[LL.
passionatus
: cf. F. passionné
.] 1.
Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered;
as, a
. passionate
natureHomer’s Achilles is haughty and
passionate
. Prior.
2.
Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm;
“The passionate Pilgrim.” as, a
. passionate
friendshipShak.
3.
Suffering; sorrowful.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Pas′sion-ate
,Verb.
I.
1.
To affect with passion; to impassion.
[Obs.]
Great pleasure, mixed with pitiful regard,
The godly king and queen did
The godly king and queen did
passionate
. Spenser.
2.
To express feelingly or sorrowfully.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Passionate
PAS'SIONATE
, a.1.
Easily moved to anger; easily excited or agitated by injury or insult; applied to persons. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate.
2.
Highly excited; vehement; warm; applied to things; as passionate affection; passionate desire; passionate concern.3.
Expressing strong emotion; animated; as passionate eloquence.PAS'SIONATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
passionate
passionate
English
Adjective
passionate (comparative more passionate, superlative most passionate)
- Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
- Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
- Prior
- Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate.
- Prior
- (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
- 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, II. i. 544:
- She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, I. ii. 124:
- Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
- 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, II. i. 544:
Synonyms
- (fired with intense feeling): ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid
Related terms
Translations
fired with intense feeling
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Noun
passionate (plural passionates)
- A passionate individual.
Verb
passionate (third-person singular simple present passionates, present participle passionating, simple past and past participle passionated)
- (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, III. ii. 6:
- Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, III. ii. 6:
External links
- passionate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- passionate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Latin
Adjective
passiōnate
- vocative masculine singular of passiōnatus
References
- PASSIONATE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)