Passionate

Definition: Passionate

Passionate

Adjective

1. Having or expressing strong emotions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "passionate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Passionate

Excitability

Impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable; ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile.

Feeling

Earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over.

Irascibility

Hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, " sudden and quick in quarrel ".

Love

Affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous, amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly.

Sexuality

Hot, horny, randy, rutting; passionate, lusty, hot-blooded, libidinous; up, in the mood.

Crosswords: Passionate

In fact, you don't normally approach girls - am I right? The truth is that you're a quiet sensitive type but, if I'm prepared to take a chance, I might just get to know the inner you: witty, adventurous, passionate, loving, loyal. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country -- why in the name of God don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell-bent to protect? (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)

Passionate, yeah! (Mallrats ; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

When we make love, it's a passionate thing ("Affair Of The Heart"; performing artist: Rick Springfield)

Another familiar type of lovesong is the passionate or firy variety, usually in tango tempo, in which the singer exhorts his partner to haunt him and taunt him and, if at all possible, to consume him with a kiss of fire. ("The Masochism Tango"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

The Passionate Industry (1971)

Passionate Summer (1958)

A Passionate Stranger (1957)

Passionate Sister (1950)

The Passionate Friends (1949)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (reference)

• Passionate Vegetarian (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Passionate Living (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Passionate Adventure (reference)

• Passionate Friends (reference)

• Sinatra: A Passionate Life (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Mass: The Most Powerful, Uplifting & Passionate Music You Will Ever Hear (reference)

• Any Given Day: Passionate Worship for the Soul (reference)

• Passionate Piano [BOX SET] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And thus, in the state of nature, one man comes by a power over another; but yet no absolute or arbitrary power, to use a criminal, when he has got him in his hands, according to the passionate heats, or boundless extravagancy of his own will; but only to retribute to him, so far as calm reason and conscience dictate, what is proportionate to his transgression, which is so much as may serve for reparation and restraint: for these two are the only reasons, why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punishment. (Second Treatise of Government)

Because you see the 46 millions in our island harassed about their food supply, of which they only grow one half, even in war-time, or because we have difficulty in restarting our industries and export trade after six years of passionate war effort, do not suppose that we shall not come through these dark years of privation as we have come through the glorious years of agony, or that half a century from now, you will not see 70 or 80 millions of Britons spread about the world and united in defense of our traditions, our way of life, and of the world causes which you and we espouse. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And in a moment the simpering meaningless face of the Baby was covered with a shower of passionate kisses.

Monseigneur Bienvenu had been formerly, according to the accounts of his youth and even of his early manhood, a passionate, perhaps a violent, man.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "passionate": a passionate nature ♦ a passionate speech ♦ passionate person. Additional references.

Beginning with "passionate": passionate-feeling, passionate-looking.

Ending with "passionate": dis-passionate, hyper-passionate, once-passionate.

Albanian

plot temperament, pasionant (warm blooded), i zjarrtë (ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, flamy, heated, hot, hot-blooded, inflammatory, passional, perfervid, sultry, volcanic, vulcanic, warm, warm blooded), i pasionuar (hot-blooded, impassioned). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملتهب (ablaze, aflame, blazing, burning, fiery, flaming, flammable, impassioned, in flames, inflammatory, red-hot, vehement), ‏متقد (ablaze, aflame, aglow, blazing, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, incandescent, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement), ‏متحمس (advocate, ardent, ardent supporter, eager, eagerly intent, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, hothead, impassioned, keen, strenuous, warm, zealot, zealous), ‏سريع الغضب (combustible, crusty, hasty, inflammable, irascible, irate, irritable, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, tempestuous, testy, tetchy, ticklish, touchy), ‏عميق (abstruse, cordial, deep, fast, heavy, ingrained, inward, profound, sound, thorough), ‏عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, impetuous, knockabout, outrageous, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic), ‏عاطفي (affectional, emotional, emotive, intimate, mawkish, moving, overwhelming, passional, rhapsodic, romantic, sentimental, sentimentalist, smoochy, sob, soft, soulful), ‏إنفعالي (declamatory, emotive, intense, problem, sentimental), ‏شهواني (amorous, carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, lustful, luxurious, randy, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuary, voluptuous, wanton, warm). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страстен (amorous, eager, enthusiastic, fervent, fierce, gutsy, impassioned, keen, libidinous, lustful, passional, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, violent), силно влюбен, пламенен (ardent, ebullient, fervent, fiery, flaming, flamy, glowing, incandescent, red blooded, torrid, zealous), избухлив (explosive, fiery, hot, inflammable, irritable, peevish, plosive, quick tempered, short tempered, violent, volatile). (various references)

Chinese 

熱情 (cordial, enthusiastic, passion, passionately), 多情. (various references)

Czech

prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), vášnivý (ardent, avid, fervent, heated, impassioned, inveterate, keen, passional, red-hot, sultry, torrid, vehement, violent), soucitný (compassionate, feeling, pitiful, sympathetic, tenderhearted, warmhearted), nadšený (dedicated, enthusiastic, glowing, great, keen, rapturous, rousing, thrilled, wholehearted, zealous, zestful). (various references)

Dutch

hartstochtelýk. (various references)

Esperanto

pasia. (various references)

Farsi 

سوداءی (Hypochondriac, Irascible), احساساتی (Ebullient, Gushy, Mushy, Pathetic, Rosewater, Sensational, Sentiment), اتشی مزاج (Irascible), شهوانی (Brutal, Carnal, Lascivious, Lecherous, Lustful, Random, Ruttish, Salacious, Sensual, Voluptuous). (various references)

Finnish

tulinen (ardent, burning, fiery, hot, hot-headed), tulimmainen (ardent, burning, fiery, hot, hot-headed), kiihkeä (ardent, hot, impetuous, violent), intohimoinen. (various references)

French

passionnel, passionné, véhément. (various references)

German

leidenschaftlich (ardent, ardently, fanatical, fervent, fervently, impassioned, keen, keenly, passionately, tempestuous, vehement, vigorous, violent). (various references)

Greek 

περιπαθήσ, παράφοροσ (hot tempered, impetuous, madding), παθιασμένοσ (impassioned), φλογερόσ (aglow, ardent, fiery, flaming, glowing, inflammatory, lurid, red-hot), ευερέθιστοσ (edgy, excitable, fretter, peevish, petulant, prickly, testy, touchy, waspish), διάπυροσ (fervid). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלא �"תל�"בות, מלא ר�'ש (feeling, keyed up, soulful), תאות� י (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, prurient, salacious, sensual, voluptuous), ק�"חת� י (ardent, febrile, fervent, feverish, hectic). (various references)

Hungarian

szenvedélyes (fervid, fierce, fiery, full-blood, heady, hectic, hot, impassioned, impetuous, passional, passionary, red-hot, temperament, tropical). (various references)

Indonesian

penuh gairah, bergairah (very enthusiastic), asyik (be infatuated, earnest, occupied), asoi (hot, super, wonderful). (various references)

Italian

passionale (of passion, passional), travolgente (captivating, overwhelming, rip roaring, side-splitting, uncontrollable), convinto (convinced, persuades, staunch), collerico (bilious, choleric, hot tempered, irascible, waspish), ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, ardent, burning, eager, earnest, fervent, fierce, fiery, hot, live, weather helm), appassionato (ardent, eager, enthusiast, fan, fond, heated, impassioned, interested, keen, lover, sultry). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

熱烈 (ardent, vehement), パチンコ台 (glassed-over arcade, pachinkomachine, pack, package, package media, package program, package tour, packaging, Packard, packing, pad, paddle, paddling, paddock, Panama, Panamax, Panasert hole, panavision, pap, passage, passenger, passing, passion, passive, passive smoking, passive solar house, passive sonar, pat, patch, patch test, patchwork, pate, patent, pathos, patio, patriotism, patrol, patrol car, patron, patting, priest, puck, putt, putting, putting green, putty, rotating warning light similar to the one on a "patokaa."). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パッショネート , ねつれつ (ardent, vehement). (various references)

Korean 

열� �한. (various references)

Manx

finnuagh, er finnue (fiercely, furiously). (various references)

Papiamen

pashonal. (various references)

Pig Latin

assionatepay

Portuguese

passional (passionary), impulsivo (impellent, impulsive, madden, warm blooded), impetuoso (dashing, fiery, forcible, furl, headlong, heady, hot, hot tempered, hot-brained, hot-headed, impetuous, lawless, licentious, mettled, mettlesome, riotous, slapdash, tearing, tempestuous, vehement, violent, volcanic), excitado (ablaze, astir, heartwarming, het up, horny, hot, jumpy, nervous, Randy, vibrant, warm), arrebatado (desperate, furious, harum scarum, heady, impetuous, rapt, rapturous, rash, rumbustious, stormy, towering, warm), ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, feelingly, fervent, fervor, fierceness, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, Hotspur, incantation, intense, keen, longing, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm), apaixonado (doting, entice, fond, heartwarming, hot-blooded, impassioned, inamorato, infatuation, love affair, lover, love-sickness, nutwood, spoony, stormy, Swain, tropic, tropical, vehement, warm, warm blooded). (various references)

Romanian

pasionat (ardent, avid, eager, enthusiast, flaming, glowing, hot stuff, hot-blooded, impassioned, keen, maniac, passional, perfervid, tropical, warm), pãtimaş (ardent, ardently, fervent, fervently, fiery, inveterate, lustily, passionately), vehement (bitterly, harangue, hot and strong, passionately, vehement, vehemently, violent), inimos (buxom, courageous, generous, spirited), furios (desperate, enraged, fiery, frantic, furious, high, hot-headed, howling, in anger, irate, ireful, like fury, mad, raging, rampageous, robust, scowling, storming, wanton, wild, wrathful), focos (ardent, fiery, high-mettled, hot tempered, match, mercurial, peppery, quick tempered, spirited), entuziasmat (elated, enthusiastic, in alt), cãlduros (affectionate, ardently, cordial, devout, devoutly, hot, passionately, warm, warmly), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), aprig (cruel, ferocious, fierce, fiery, grim, hard-hearted, harshly, high-spirited, impetuous, passionately, severe, sharp, truculent, violent), înfocat (ardent, bright, eager, enthusiastic, fervid, fiery, heated, hectic, hot, hot stuff, proud, red-hot), înflãcãrat (ardent, eager, enthusiastic, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, perfervid, red-hot, tropical, warm blooded), încarnat (embodied, ingrowing). (various references)

Russian 

страстный (all-absorbing, hot-blooded, impassioned, passional, vehement, warm). (various references)

Scottish

cas (abrupt, curled, fire, foot, gnash the teeth, haft : casan, leg, oppose, paw, rash, shaft, steep, thwart, to close upon), borb (fierce, savage), � rdanach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strastan (fervent), strasan (hot-blooded). (various references)

Spanish

apasionado (amative, enthusiast, fervent, fervid, hot, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, sultry, warm blooded). (various references)

Swedish

passionerad (impassioned, torrid), lidelsefull (flaming, impassioned), hetsig (excitable, fiery, hot, hot-headed, peppery, warm), häftig (ardent, be furious, blustery, darting, excessive, explosive, exquisite, ferocious, fierce, flaming, fulminant, furious, groovy, gusty, heady, heavy, impetuous, intense, irascible, jazzy, keen, quick, quick tempered, rude, smart, throe, vehement, violent, virulent, volcanic). (various references)

Turkish

tutkulu (ambitious, hellbent, sultry, warm blooded), ihtiraslı (ambitious, sultry, torrid), hırslı (ambitious, angry, avid, competitive, covetous, greedy, greedy for, high-flying, impassioned, uptight, voracious), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, perfervid, racy, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous). (various references)

Ukranian 

несамовитий (amok, amuck, delirious, ecstatic, frantic, heartbreaking, heartrending, irresponsible, non compos, outrageous, phrenetic, violent), закоханий (admirer, adorer, amorous, in love, spoony), запальний (choleric, explosive, fiery, gingery, hard-nosed, hasty, heated, hot, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, inflammable, inflammatory, ireful, ornery, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, spunky, testy), пристрасний (affectionate, ardent, fervid, hot-blooded, one sided, passional, sultry, warm). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiết tha dễ giận, say sưa (impassioned), say đắm, sôi nổi (ardent, ardently, bean, bean-fed, effervescent, feverish, fiery, hectic, hot-blooded, hot-spririted, keen, mettled, mettlesome, rousing, vehement), n�"ng nhiệt (ardent, ardently, red-hot, strong, tropical), n�"ng n� n (ardent, ardently), dễ cáu (bilious, biliously, fiery, irascible, nervy, quick-tempered, rambunctious, raspy, waspish). (various references)

Welsh

angerddol (ardent, intense, violent). (various references)

animosus, fervidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "passionate": passionately, passionateness, passionatenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "passionate": compassionate, dispassionate, uncompassionate. (additional references)

Words containing "passionate": compassionated, compassionately, compassionateness, compassionatenesses, compassionates, dispassionately, dispassionateness, dispassionatenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Passionate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apassionata, Pasinetti, pasionate, passionat, passonate, Possente. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: saponites.

-2 letters: anapests, anopsias, astonies, entasias, paesanos, paisanos, pastinas, peasants, saponite, senopias, soapiest, steapsin.

-3 letters: anapest, anopias, anopsia, apnoeas, aptness, atonies, atopies, entasia, entasis, epinaos, insteps, nasties, nosiest, opiates, paesani, paesano, paesans, paisano, paisans, pansies, panties, passant, passion, pasties, pastina, patinae, patinas, patines, patness, patsies, peasant, petasos, petsais, pinatas, pintoes, pissant, pistons, pointes, postins, potsies, ptisans, sapiens, sapient, sapotas, sapotes, senopia, sestina, sonatas, sopites, spinate, spinets, spinose, spintos, stepson, taenias, taipans, tansies, tapises, teopans, tisanes.

-4 letters: anises, anopia, ansate, apneas, apnoea, aspens, assent, atones, enosis, eosins, essoin, estops, insets, instep, netops, noesis, noises, onsets, opiate, opines, opsins, ossein, paeans, paeons, paesan, paints, paisan, paisas, pantie, pantos, paseos, pastas, pastes, pastie, pastis, patens, patina, patine, patins, patios, patois, pestos, petsai, pianos, pietas, pinata, pineta, pinots, pintas, pintos, pistes, piston, pitons, pointe, points, poises, ponies, pontes, posies, posits, posset, postin, potsie, ptisan, ptoses, ptosis, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, santos, sapota, sapote, satins, season, sepias, setons, siesta, sneaps, snipes, sonata, sonsie, sopite, spaits, spates, speans, spines, spinet, spinto, spites, stains, stanes, stapes, steins, stenos, stipes, stones, stopes, taenia, taipan, tassie, tenias, teopan, tineas, tisane.

-5 letters: aeons, anise, anoas, ansae, antae, antas, antes, antis, apian, apnea, apses, apsis, aspen, aspis, assai, asset, ataps, atone, easts, entia, eosin, estop, etnas, inapt, inept, inset, iotas, napes, nates, neaps, neats, neist, nests, netop, nipas, nites, noise, noses, notes, oases, oasis, oasts, oaten, onset, opens, opine, opsin, ossia, ostia, paean, paeon, pains, paint, paisa, paise, panes, panto, pants, paseo, pases, passe, pasta, paste, pasts, paten, pates, patin, patio, peans, peats, peins, penis, peons, pesos, pesto, pests, piano, pians, pieta, pinas, pines, pinot, pinta, pinto, pints, pions, pisos, piste, pitas, piton, poets, point, poise, pones, poses, posit, posse, posts, psoae, psoai, psoas, sains, saint, sanes, santo, sasin, sates, satin, satis, seats, sensa, senti, sepia, septa, septs, seton, sines, sipes, sites, snaps, sneap, snipe, snips, snits, snots, soaps, sones, spaes, spait, spans, spate, spats, spean, spent, spies, spine, spins, spite, spits, spots, stain, stane, stein, steno, steps, sties, stipe, stoae, stoai, stoas, stone, stope, stops, tains, tapas, tapes, tapis, tasse, tenia, tepas, tinea, tines, toeas, tones, topes, topis.

+1 letter: separations.

+2 letters: ceratopsians, passionately.

+3 letters: angioplasties, compassionate, dispassionate, endoparasites, exasperations, scapegoatings, separationist.

+4 letters: anisometropias, compassionated, compassionates, dispensational, encapsulations, endoparasitism, paleobotanists, pantisocracies, passionateness, procrastinates, separationists, specialisation.

+5 letters: aminopeptidases, appropriateness, comparativeness, compassionately, dispassionately, endoparasitisms, operationalisms, operationalists, paleomagnetisms, paleomagnetists, pasteurizations, proletarianises, specialisations, specializations, superannuations, supersaturation, trypanosomiases, uncompassionate.

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