Passionate definition

păshə-nĭt

Marked by strong sexual desire; amorous or lustful.

adjective

Readily aroused to sexual activity; sensual.

adjective

Showing or expressing strong emotion; ardent.

A passionate speech against injustice.

adjective

Capable of, having, or dominated by powerful emotions.

A family of passionate personalities.

adjective

Resulting from, expressing, or tending to arouse strong feeling; ardent; intense; impassioned.

A passionate speech.

adjective

Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.

adjective

Having or showing strong feelings; full of passion.

adjective

The definition of passionate is having or showing strong feelings, strong emotions or a strong sexual desire.

An example of passionate is someone who loves their career.

adjective

Arising from or marked by passion.

A teacher who is passionate about her subject.

adjective

Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.

adjective

(obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.

verb

Easily angered; hot-tempered.

adjective

A passionate individual.

noun

Wrathful by temperament; choleric.

adjective

Strong; vehement.

adjective

Origin of passionate

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

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