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PASSIONATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or expressing strong emotions
Classified under:
Similar:
ablaze; aflame; aroused (keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement)
ardent; fervent; fervid; fiery; impassioned; perfervid; torrid (characterized by intense emotion)
choleric (easily moved to anger)
demon-ridden (as if possessed by demons)
fanatic; fanatical; overzealous; rabid (marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea)
concupiscent; lustful; lusty (vigorously passionate)
wild (in a state of extreme emotion)
Also:
emotional (of more than usual emotion)
enthusiastic (having or showing great excitement and interest)
hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)
loving (feeling or showing love and affection)
Antonym:
passionless (not passionate)
Derivation:
passionateness (a strong feeling or emotion)
Context examples:
Then the strong, soothing hand of the austere maid drew her head down on to the cushion, and the wild anger died away into passionate sobbing.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I can't love anyone else, and I'll never forget you, Jo, Never! Never!" with a stamp to emphasize his passionate words.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You are of such value to me, he cried, in a whirl of hot, passionate words, that all else has become nought.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sterndale’s fierce face turned to a dusky red, his eyes glared, and the knotted, passionate veins started out in his forehead, while he sprang forward with clenched hands towards my companion.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There it stands, on its two hind-legs, club in hand, immensely potential, passionate and wrathful and loving, god and mystery and power all wrapped up and around by flesh that bleeds when it is torn and that is good to eat like any flesh.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The cruelty of Mrs. Jennings no language, within her reach in her moments of happiest eloquence, could have expressed; and now she could reproach her only by the tears which streamed from her eyes with passionate violence—a reproach, however, so entirely lost on its object, that after many expressions of pity, she withdrew, still referring her to the letter of comfort.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But he, the honest seaman, so incapable of deceit or affectation that he could not suspect it in others, ran madly to the bell, shouting for the maid, the doctor, and the smelling-salts, with incoherent words of grief, and such passionate terms of emotion that my father thought it more discreet to twitch me by the sleeve as a signal that we should steal from the room.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This project may come from work or it may come from deep inside you, stemming from an idea that you are passionate about and feel compelled to create.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
But you are passionate, Jane, that you must allow: and now return to the nursery—there's a dear—and lie down a little.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
