Passionate

Pronunciation

Origin

From Medieval Latin passionatus, past participle of passionare ("to be affected with passion"); see passion.

Full definition of passionate

Adjective

1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
2. Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
• PriorHomer's Achilles is haughty and passionate.
3. (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
• 1596, William Shakespeare, , II. i. 544:She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
• 1599, William Shakespeare, , I. ii. 124:Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

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

• passion
• passive
• passivity
• patience
• patient

Noun

1. A passionate individual.

Verb

1. (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 ....
2. (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
• 1607, William Shakespeare, , III. ii. 6:Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands
  And cannot passionate our tenfold grief
  with folded arms.