passionate

UK /ˈpæʃənɪt/ US /ˈpæʃənɪt/
adj 3verb 2

Definitions

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

Suffering; sorrowful.

She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.

Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

verb

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.

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