Impassioned

Definition: Impassioned

Impassioned

Adjective

1. Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair".

Date "impassioned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Synonyms: Impassioned

Synonyms: ardent (adj), burning(a) (adj), fervent (adj), fervid (adj), fiery (adj), perfervid (adj), torrid (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitability	Overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical; rabid; (eager).
Vigor	Lofty, elevated, sublime; eloquent; vehement, petulant, impassioned; poetic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Impassioned

English words defined with "impassioned": ardent ♦ burning ♦ demagoguery, demagogy ♦ fervent, fervid, fiery, furiously ♦ perfervid ♦ torrid. (references)

Specialty definitions using "impassioned": Waltz. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	This is a song for the impassioned. ("This Song: For The True And Passionate Lovers Of Music"; performing artist: Shai)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A legacy of caring : the impassioned mission of Sisters of the Holy Family : in commemoration of their 125th jubilee, November 6, 1997 (reference) Impassioned Brothers: Ministers Resident to France and Paraguay (reference) Impassioned Clay (reference) Impassioned cows by moonlight : poems (reference) Impassioned Embraces. (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Berserk; beside oneself; blazing; carried away; convulsive; crazed; crazy; delirious; distracted; distraught; emotional; excited; agitated; fiery; frantic; frenzied; fuming; furious; impassioned; impetuous; incensed; irrepressible; mad; maddened; nervous.		Amative; amatory; amorous; aphrodisiac; bawdy; blue; carnal; concupiscent; dirty; earthy; erogenous; fervid; filthy; fleshly; hot; impassioned; kinky; lascivious; lecherous; lewd; obscene; off-color; purple; prurient; raunchy; raw; romantic; rousing; sala.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Chuang Tse	Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Marcus T. Cicero	A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Hungary	Kadar, after delivering an impassioned radio address on November 1 in support of "our glorious revolution" and vowing to fight the Russians with his bare hands if they attacked Hungary, defected from the Nagy cabinet; he fled to the Soviet Union and on November 4 announced the formation of a new government. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Al Hunt	Senator, let me switch the subject. You have made an impassioned plea for disclosure today, in talking about the president and the vice president.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	The United States Constitution is the impassioned and inspired vehicle by which we travel through history.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Impassioned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Impassioned" is used about 138 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	138	27,024

Expression using "impassioned": get impassioned. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "impassioned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pasionuar (hot-blooded, passionate), i flaktë (ardent, burning, flaming, hot, incandescent). (various references)

Arabic		‏ملتهب (ablaze, aflame, blazing, burning, fiery, flaming, flammable, in flames, inflammatory, passionate, red-hot, vehement), ‏متقد (ablaze, aflame, aglow, blazing, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, incandescent, passionate, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement), ‏متحمس (advocate, ardent, ardent supporter, eager, eagerly intent, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, hothead, keen, passionate, strenuous, warm, zealot, zealous), ‏مشبوب العاطفة. (various references)

Bulgarian		страстен (amorous, eager, enthusiastic, fervent, fierce, gutsy, keen, libidinous, lustful, passional, passionate, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, violent), възбуден (aflutter, aglow, agog, effervescent, excited, fevered, hectic, hot, overwrought, tremulous, tumultuous, wrought up), обхванат от страст. (various references)

Chinese		感动 (Affective, Impassionate). (various references)

Czech		vášnivý (ardent, avid, fervent, heated, inveterate, keen, passional, passionate, red-hot, sultry, torrid, vehement, violent), plamenný (fervent, rousing), úpìnlivý (appealing). (various references)

French		passionné, exalté. (various references)

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

Greek		πλήρησ πάθουσ, παθιασμένοσ (passionate). (various references)

Hebrew		� ל�"ב (animated, ardent, devotee, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, excited, fervent, fervid, fiery, keen, zealous), � ר�'ש (affectionate, aflutter, astir, excited, moved, tempestuous, tense). (various references)

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

Indonesian		bergelora (effervesce, fiery, seethe). (various references)

Italian		eloquente (articulate, eloquent, fluent, significant), appassionato (ardent, eager, enthusiast, fan, fond, heated, interested, keen, lover, passionate, sultry). (various references)

Manx		lossanagh (aglow, auroral, blazing, bright, flaming, flaring, genial, inflamed, inflammable, luminous, phosphorescent, varnish), cheh (fevered, heated, hot, passion, sexually precocious, thermal). (various references)

Pig Latin		impassioneday.(various references)

Portuguese		exaltar (bless, cry up, elate, elevate, emblem, exalt, extol, extoll, glorify, honor, honour, lift, magnify, pedestal, praise), apaixonado (doting, entice, fond, heartwarming, hot-blooded, inamorato, infatuation, love affair, lover, love-sickness, nutwood, passionate, spoony, stormy, Swain, tropic, tropical, vehement, warm, warm blooded). (various references)

Romanian		zelos (ardent, devout, eager, earnest, fervent, gumptious, intensely, zealous), plin de zel, plin de pasiune, pasionat (ardent, avid, eager, enthusiast, flaming, glowing, hot stuff, hot-blooded, keen, maniac, passional, passionate, perfervid, tropical, warm), febril (febrile, fevered, feverish, feverishly). (various references)

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

Serbo-Croatian		strastven (avid, passionary), ganut (moved, touched). (various references)

Spanish		exaltado (ebullient, elated, emotional, exalted, excitable, extreme, far out, hothead, hotheaded, intense, light-headed, mad person, overexcited, worked up), apasionado (amative, enthusiast, fervent, fervid, hot, hot-blooded, intense, passionate, sultry, warm blooded). (various references)

Swedish		lidelsefull (flaming, passionate). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งแส�"งอารม�"์ความรู้สึกออกมา. (various references)

Turkish		heyecanlı (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, crazed, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excitable, excited, exciting, febrile, feverish, glowing, gone, gripping, happy, heated, hectic, het up, hot, in a lather, inspired, nail biting, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, spirited, stormy, thrilling, tiptoe, vibrant, warm, wrought up, zealous), hırslı (ambitious, angry, avid, competitive, covetous, greedy, greedy for, high-flying, passionate, uptight, voracious), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, racy, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous). (various references)

Turkmen		gyzykmak (be fervoured). (various references)

Ukranian		охоплений пристрастю. (various references)

Vietnamese		xúc động mạnh, say sưa (passionate), say mê sôi nổi, bị kích thích mãnh liệt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "impassioned": unimpassioned. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Impassioned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empassioned. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "impassioned" (pronounced i'mpa"shund)
5	-a" sh u n d	fashioned, rationed.
4	-sh u n d	aforementioned, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, captioned, cautioned, commissioned, conditioned, cushioned, decommissioned, functioned, malfunctioned, mentioned, motioned, optioned, partitioned, petitioned, positioned, proportioned, propositioned, reconditioned, repositioned, requisitioned, sanctioned, sectioned, stationed, unsanctioned, vacationed.
3	-u n d	abandoned, aland, almond, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, cordoned, cottoned, dampened, darkened, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, margined, millisecond, moistened, moribund, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, poisoned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, questioned, quickened, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reexamined, reopened, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, seasoned, second, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, upland, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-m-n-o-p-s-s"
	-2 letters: admission, demission, dopamines, impassion, indispose, mispoised, missioned.
	-3 letters: adenosis, adiposes, adiposis, adonises, amidines, amidones, anemosis, daimones, dampness, dapsones, diamines, dominies, dopamine, dopiness, emission, mispoise, misspend, peonisms, pianisms, senopias, sesamoid, sidespin, simonies, sinapism, sinopias, spadones.
	-4 letters: adipose, amidine, amidins, amidone, anomies, apsides, daemons, daimios, daimons, daisies, dampens, damsons, dapsone, desmans, diamine, diamins, dimness, dispose, domains, domines, dominie, emodins, eonisms, epinaoi, epinaos, impasse, impends, imponed, impones, imposed, imposes, inseams, insides, iodines, iodises, iodisms, ionised, ionises, isospin, madness, maidens, masoned, medians, medinas, meiosis, misdoes, misdone, mispens, missaid, missend, mission, monades, pandies, pansies, passion, peonism, pianism, pomades, saimins, samisen, sapiens, senopia, sideman, simians, sinopia, sinopie, spinose.
	-5 letters: adonis, aidmen, amends, amides, amidin, amines, amnios, animes, animis, anises, anodes, anomie, asides, aspens, daemon, daimen, daimio, daimon, daises, dampen, damson, danios, dassie, deisms, demons, denims, desman, diamin, diesis, dipsas, dipsos, dismes, domain, domine, donsie, emodin, enosis, eonism, eosins, essoin, idioms, imides, imines, impend, impone, impose, indies, inseam, inside, iodine, iodins, iodise, iodism, ionise, maiden, manses, masons, massed, median, medias, medina, menads, mensas, mesian, mesons, messan, mioses, miosis, mispen, missed, moaned, monads, mondes, monied, monies, mopeds, mossed, niseis, noesis, noised, noises, nomads, onside, opined, opines, opsins, ossein, paeons, pained, paseos, passed, passim, pianos, pissed, poinds, poised, poises, pomade, ponied, ponies, posies, sadism, saimin, sained, sanies, sansei, season, sedans, seisin, semina, sepias, simian, sneaps, sniped, snipes, soaped, sondes, sonsie, spades, speans, spends, spined, spines, spodes.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-m-n-o-p-s-s"
	+1 letter: preadmission.
	+2 letters: preadmissions, unimpassioned.
	+3 letters: endoparasitism.
	+4 letters: aminopeptidases, disappointments, endoparasitisms.
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