having or expressing strong emotions

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.

Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship.

Suffering; sorrowful.

To affect with passion; to impassion.

To express feelingly or sorrowfully.

Capable of intense feeling; easily moved to anger; excitable; ardent; as, a passionate desire.

Passionately.

Moved by passion: easily moved to anger: intense.

PASSIONATENESS.

Filled with passion; ardent; hot- tempered.

Easily moved to anger; excitable; ardent.

Easily moved to anger; moved, prompted, or inspired by passion or strong emotion.

Easily excited or moved to anger; feeling or expressing strong emotion; arising from passion.

Passionate she might be, and therefore in the heat of the moment might be led to do a terrible deed. – The Coming of the King by James Hocking

We are not passionate to cross them save for the sake of adventure; but we are passionate to defend them. – Hills and the Sea by H. Belloc

The passionate weeping ceased, and the proud, sad face grew calm and still. – Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Braeme

Her eyes are gazing with passionate question into his. – A Little Rebel by Mrs. Hungerford

They sounded passionate and bitter, yet his arm was still on his father's shoulder; but the Major pushed him back now. – The Northern Light by E. Werner

He shuddered as the passionate notes swept over his senses. – The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker

It may have been that he had naturally an ill temper; it may have been that the sorrows of his long life or the sufferings of his long illness had rendered him extremely irritable; but in his old age he had become unusually violent and passionate. – Iermola by Joseph Ignatius Kraszewksi

He had never before, perhaps, been quite certain of Marie Ivanovna, had been alarmed at her independence, or at his own passionate love for her. – The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole

Though, by the way, it was at that very dance that she had met that man who had said such passionate words to her as she had never heard from any other. – Bertha Garlan by Arthur Schnitzler

He was standing where she left him, both hands locked together till they were white with the passionate pressure. – Moods by Louisa May Alcott

I sat beside her on a stone, and I then declared my passionate love for her. – The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

If a passionate person give you ill language, you ought rather to pity than be angry with him, for anger is a species of disease. – The Young Man's Guide by William A. Alcott

She took his hands with passionate tenderness, and pressed them to her lips. – NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER by L. Muhlbach

I thought of her with a great wave of passionate love, and more of hope than I had dared to feel for many a long day. – The House by the Lock by C. N. Williamson

The thought rushed through Faith's heart with passionate longing. – The Beggar Man by Ruby Mildred Ayres

Why should not there be passionate love between us? – Nancy A Novel by Rhoda Broughton

Passionate sobs rise in her throat, and almost overcome her. – Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

But what he did was done with passionate devotion. – In Mesopotamia by Martin Swayne

His reply was short and passionate;- and the reader shall see it. – The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

After the elevator had clanged its way down with Bruce and Margaret, Patricia turned with a passionate gesture to the others. – Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Pemberton Ginther