Word Meanings - PASSIONATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. 2. Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship. "The passionate Pilgrim." Shak. 3. Suffering; sorrowful. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PASSIONATE)

• Angry
• Wrathful
• irate
• resentful
• ireful
• incensed
• furious
• irascible
• choleric
• moody
• nettled
• touchy
• sullen
• piqued
• excited
• provoked
• raging
• chafed
• hasty
• hot
• exasperated
• indignant
• passionate
• Ardent
• Longing
• aspiring
• eager
• fervent
• fiery
• glowing
• zealous
• fervid
• fierce
• keen
• vehement
• affectionate
• impassioned
• burning
• heated
• Fiery
• Hot
• ardent
• enkindled
• irritable
• hotbrained
• Hasty
• Speedy
• rapid
• superficial
• hurried
• impetuous
• reckless
• headlong
• crude
• incomplete
• undeveloped
• immature
• swift
• precipitate
• slight
• quick
• excitable
• rash
• cursory
• Impassioned
• Excited
• spirited

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PASSIONATE)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to PASSIONATE)

• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• NETTLER
  One who nettles. Milton.
• RAGE
  1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• GLOWLAMP
  An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• ASPIRATOR
  An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• HEATHER
  Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
• INCENSIVE
  Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.
• RAGLAN
  A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• ASPIRIN
  A white crystalline compound of acetyl and salicylic acid used as a drug for the salicylic acid liberated from it in the intestines.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• TETRAGYNIA
  A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• PHRAGMOCONE
  The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• MOORAGE
  A place for mooring.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN