passionate

Meanings

Adjective

• Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
• Fired with intense feeling.
• Suffering; sorrowful.

Noun

• A passionate individual.

Verb

• To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
• To express with great emotion.

Related

Similar words

• ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid

Origin

• From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passionatus, past participle of passionare; see passion.