passion-ridden
passion-ridden adjective: dominated or controlled by the passions (as opposed to the intellect, for example).
Adjective
passion-ridden (comparative more passion-ridden, superlative most passion-ridden)
- Dominated or controlled by the passions (as opposed to the intellect, for example).
- […] it needs little penetration to enable one to declare that the country will come out of such a struggle sadder, perhaps wiser, and certainly shorn of its wealth and greatness to an extent of which the passion-ridden or self-seeking advocates of strife, and the unreflecting multitude who cheer...1878 May, “Can England easily bear the cost of a great war?”, in Fraser’s Magazine, page 547
- [The song] summed up for him, in sweet harmonies, the destinies of living beings, the distressed agony of a flaming, passion-ridden world, and appealed to him, in the name of the immense pity that filled his soul, to go forth with his message of hope and liberation, and save the world.1937, Kartar Singh, chapter 7, in Life of Guru Nanak Dev, Amritsar: Jaidev Singh Jogindar Singh, page 64
Forms of passion-ridden
| comparative | more passion-ridden |
|---|---|
| superlative | most passion-ridden |
Origin of passion-ridden
From passion + ridden.
Questions about passion-ridden
- What does passion-ridden mean?
- Passion-ridden means dominated or controlled by the passions (as opposed to the intellect, for example).
- What part of speech is passion-ridden?
- Passion-ridden is an adjective.
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