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passionates

passionates is the plural of passionate.

passionates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of passionate.

Meaning of passionate

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]...

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Questions about passionates

What is passionates the plural of?
Passionates is the plural of passionate.

Words near passionates in the dictionary

  1. passionate friendship
  2. passionate friendships
  3. passionated
  4. passionately
  5. passionateness
  6. passionates
  7. passionating
  8. passionative
  9. passioned
  10. passionflower
  11. passionflowers

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