passionate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.

   Mandy is a passionate lover.

2. 2
   adj

   Fired with intense feeling.

   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, 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.

3. 3
   adj

   Suffering; sorrowful.

   She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.

4. 4
   verb

   To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.

   Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].

5. 5
   verb

   To express with great emotion.

   Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.

6. 6
   adj

   having or expressing strong emotions

Etymology

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