Word Meanings - IROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Irascible; passionate. Chaucer.

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• PASSIONATE
  1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
• PASSIONATELY
  1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately. South. 2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke.
• PASSIONATENESS
  The state or quality of being passionate.
• IRASCIBLE
  Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood. -- I*ras"ci*ble*ness, n. -- I*ras"ci*bly, adv.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• IMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. Smart.
• EMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.
• UNPASSIONATE
  Not passionate; dispassionate. -- Un*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv.
• COMPASSIONATE
  1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South. 2. Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. Shak. Syn. -- Sympathizing; tender;
• DISPASSIONATE
  1. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon. 2. Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial;
• COMPASSIONATENESS
  The quality or state of being compassionate.
• OVERPASSIONATE
  Passionate to excess. -- O"ver*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv.