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passionate

Syllables: pas·sion·ate/ˈpæʃənɪt/

passionate adjective: given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.

Adjective

passionate (comparative more passionate, superlative most passionate)

  1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
    • Mandy is a passionate lover.
  2. Fired with intense feeling.
    • 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.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
  3. (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
    • She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.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[ward]...
    • Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,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...

Verb

IPA/ˈpæʃəneɪt/

passionate (third-person singular simple present passionates, present participle passionating, simple past and past participle passionated)

  1. (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
    • Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Antonyms:
    dispassionate
  2. (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
    • Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

passionate meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

passionate in Hindi

fired with intense feeling
वासनात्मक vāsnātmak, कामवान kāmvān, उत्साही utsāhī

passionate in Marathi

उत्कट

passionate in Urdu

آتشیں, درد ناک, جوشیلا

passionate in Bengali

আবেগপ্রবণ, কোনো বিষয়ে গভীর উৎসাহী
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passionate in Telugu
కోపి kōpi
passionate in Malayalam
അത്യുത്കടമായ, തീക്ഷ്ണമായ, വികാരതീവ്രമായ, ഉൽക്കടമായ
passionate in Kannada
ಕೋಪಿಷ್ಠ, ಶೀಘ್ರಕೋಪಿ, ಭಾವೋದ್ರಿಕ್ತ, ರೋಷಾವಿಷ್ಟ
passionate in Punjabi
ਜਨੂੰਨੀ
passionate in Gujarati
રાતું rātũ
passionate in Odia
ଉଷ୍ଣ uṣṇa
passionate in Sanskrit
चण्ड caṇḍa
passionate in Arabic
شَغُوف šaḡūf, مُتَحَمِّس mutaḥammis
passionate in Persian
پرشور poršur
passionate in Vietnamese
đam mê, dể giận

Examples of passionate in a sentence

  • The young men slowly and sensually undressed each other before making passionate love.
  • Although I'm not passionate about this issue, I'm willing to attend the rally to give moral support.
  • Seeing Leslie fills me with a passionate lust.

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Synonyms of passionate

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Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of passionate

Forms of passionate

Adjective
comparativemore passionate
superlativemost passionate
Verb
third-person singular presentpassionates
present participlepassionating
past participlepassionated
pastpassionated

Origin of passionate

From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.

From passion + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French passionner.

Words formed from passionate

Phrases with passionate

Questions about passionate

What does passionate mean?
Passionate means given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
What is passionate in Hindi?
Passionate in Hindi is वासनात्मक (vāsnātmak), कामवान (kāmvān), उत्साही (utsāhī). See Passionate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is passionate?
Passionate can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce passionate?
Passionate is pronounced /ˈpæʃənɪt/.

Words near passionate in the dictionary

  1. passion-ridden
  2. passional
  3. passionals
  4. passionaries
  5. passionary
  6. passionate
  7. passionate friendship
  8. passionate friendships
  9. passionated
  10. passionately
  11. passionateness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: passionate (page history and authors); passionate (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); passionate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); passionate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కోపి (Telugu) (page history and authors); passionate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); passionate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); passionate (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); રાતું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଉଷ୍ଣ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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