impassionate
/ɪmˈpæʃənət/
impassionate adjective: filled with passion; impassioned.
Adjective (1)
impassionate (comparative more impassionate, superlative most impassionate)
- Filled with passion; impassioned
- The Briton Prince was ſore empaſſionate, / And woxe inclined much vnto her part, [...]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 46, page 309
- It is essential, as in Milton, that poetry be simple, sensuous, and impassionate:—simple that it may appeal to the elements and the primary laws of our nature; sensuous, since it is only by sensuous images that we can elicit truth at a flash; impassionate since images must be vivid, in order to...1813, J. Payne Collier, quoting Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets, Kessinger Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, III. Lectures on Shakspere and Milton...
- Synonyms:
- impassioned, passionate
- Antonyms:
- disimpassioned, apathetic, indifferent
Verb
IPA/ɪmˈpæʃəneɪt/
impassionate (third-person singular simple present impassionates, present participle impassionating, simple past and past participle impassionated)
Adjective (2)
impassionate (comparative more impassionate, superlative most impassionate)
- Lacking passion; dispassionate
- Various old ladies in the neighbourhood spoke of him as The Last of the Patriarchs. So grey, so slow, so quiet, so impassionate, so very bumpy in the head, Patriarch was the word for him.1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Patriarchal”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 1st book (Poverty), page 105
- “Try to serve well and to show yourself worthy,” he added, turning sternly to Borís. “I am glad— Are you here on leave?” he recited, in his impassionate voice.1869, Leo Wiener, War and Peace, volume 2, BiblioBazaar, translation of Война и мир by Leo Tolstoy, published 1957, →ISBN, page 77
- Synonyms:
- dispassionate
impassionate meaning in Urdu
impassionate in Urdu
- جذباتی
Examples of impassionate in a sentence
- “Well sir,” exclaimed a lady, the vehement and impassionate partizan of Wilkes, in the day of his glory, and during the broad blaze of his patriotism,—“well sir! and will you dare deny, the Mr.1817 July, Joseph Deniie, John Elihu Hall, “The Adversaria”, in The Port Folio for 1817, volume 4, number 1, Harrison Hall, page 40:
- Young ministers, deeply impressed and longing to pour out the burning, impassionate zeal of their own souls, are apt to abuse the use of this figure.1900, George P. Hott, Christ, the Teacher, U. B. Publishing House, page 81
- The first and main reason is the fact that after the disobedience of Adam, his body received the whole of its existence and constitutions from physical pleasure that is impassionate and irrational.1989 [1801], Pater A Chambers, Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain: A Handbook fo Spiritual Counsel, Paulist Press, translation of...
- IS it just coincidence that the most impassionate ethnographic disputes of the decade are swirling around the figure of her who was first mother of Media Anthropology?1990, David W. Plath, “Fieldnotes, Field Notes, and the Conferring of Note”, in Roger Sanjeck, editor, Fieldnotes: The Makings of...
Synonyms of impassionate
Antonyms
Forms of impassionate
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more impassionate |
| superlative | most impassionate |
| alternative form (obsolete) | empassionate |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | impassionates |
| present participle | impassionating |
| past participle | impassionated |
| past | impassionated |
Origin of impassionate
From Italian impassionato. By surface analysis, in- (“into”) + passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
From the above adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Equivalent to in- (“into”) + passion + -ate.
From im- (“not”) + passionate.
Words formed from impassionate
Questions about impassionate
- What does impassionate mean?
- Impassionate means filled with passion; impassioned.
- What is impassionate in Urdu?
- Impassionate in Urdu is جذباتی. See Impassionate meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use impassionate in a sentence?
- “Well sir,” exclaimed a lady, the vehement and impassionate partizan of Wilkes, in the day of his glory, and during the broad blaze of his patriotism,—“well sir! and will you dare deny, the Mr.
- What part of speech is impassionate?
- Impassionate can be an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce impassionate?
- Impassionate is pronounced /ɪmˈpæʃənət/.
Words near impassionate in the dictionary
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