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English
Etymology
From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passionatus, past participle of passionare (“to be affected with passion”); see passion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpæʃənɪt/, /ˈpæʃənət/
- Hyphenation: pas‧sion‧ate
Adjective
passionate (comparative more passionate, superlative most passionate)
- Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
Mandy is a passionate lover.
- 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.
- (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 544:She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.
c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 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
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Translations
fired with intense feeling
- Afrikaans: passievol
- Basque: sutsua
- Bulgarian: страстен (bg) (strasten)
- Catalan: apassionat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 多情 (zh) (duōqíng), 熾熱/炽热 (zh) (chìrè), 熱情/热情 (zh) (rèqíng)
- Czech: vášnivý (cs) m
- Danish: lidenskabelig
- Dutch: hartstochtelijk (nl), gepassioneerd (nl)
- Esperanto: pasia
- Finnish: intohimoinen (fi), kiihkeä (fi), tulinen (fi), palava (fi)
- French: passionné (fr)
- Galician: apaixoado, ardencioso m
- Georgian: ვნებიანი (vnebiani), მგზნებარე (mgznebare), ცხოველი (cxoveli), ფიცხი (picxi)
- German: leidenschaftlich (de)
- Greek: παθιασμένος (el) (pathiasménos)
- Ancient: περιπαθής (peripathḗs)
- Haitian Creole: pasyone
- Hindi: वासनात्मक (hi) (vāsnātmak), कामवान (kāmvān)
- Hungarian: szenvedélyes (hu)
- Icelandic: ástríðufullur
- Irish: ainmhianach
- Italian: appassionato (it)
- Japanese: 熱烈 (ja) (netsuretsu)
- Korean: 불타는 (bultaneun)
- Latin: passionatus
- Latvian: kaislīgs
- Maori: remurere, tūkaha, kohara, panapana, pukā
- Middle English: passional
- Persian: پرشور (fa) (poršur)
- Polish: namiętny (pl)
- Portuguese: ardente (pt) m
- Romanian: înflăcărat (ro) m
- Russian: стра́стный (ru) (strástnyj), пы́лкий (ru) (pýlkij)
- Sanskrit: चण्ड (sa) (caṇḍa)
- Scottish Gaelic: dian, dìoghrasach, feargach
- Serbo-Croatian: žarki (sh) m
- Slovak: vášnivý
- Spanish: apasionado (es)
- Swedish: passionerad (sv), lidelsefull (sv)
- Tocharian B: eṅkalsu
- Ukrainian: при́страсний (prýstrasnyj)
- Vietnamese: đam mê (vi), dể giận
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Noun
passionate (plural passionates)
- A passionate individual.
Verb
passionate (third-person singular simple present passionates, present participle passionating, simple past and past participle passionated)
- (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
- (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 6:Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.
Further reading
- “passionate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “passionate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin
Adjective
passiōnāte
- vocative masculine singular of passiōnātus
References
Middle English
Adjective
passionate
- Alternative form of passionat