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Definitions of passionate
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Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship.
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Easily moved to anger; moved, prompted, or inspired by passion or strong emotion.
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having or expressing strong emotions
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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.
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Capable of intense feeling; easily moved to anger; excitable; ardent; as, a passionate desire.
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Passionately.
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Easily moved to anger; excitable; ardent.
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Suffering; sorrowful.
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To express feelingly or sorrowfully.
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Moved by passion: easily moved to anger: intense.
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Easily excited or moved to anger; feeling or expressing strong emotion; arising from passion.
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Filled with passion; ardent; hot- tempered.
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To affect with passion; to impassion.
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PASSIONATENESS.
Antonyms for passionate
detached, tepid, nonchalant, moral, lukewarm, chaste, immaculate, monastic, perfidious, disinterested, monkish, antiseptic, frigid, sedate, undersexed, undemonstrative, halfhearted, apathetic, numb, priggish, peaceful, complacent, reserved, stolid, false, chill, pure, casual, insensible, recreant, affectless, puritanical, tranquil, prim, faithless, self-possessed, unsympathetic, perfunctory, unfriendly, decent, fickle, arctic, objective, unconcerned, unruffled, cool, unenthusiastic, untrue, passionless, composed, frosty, stoic, unimpassioned, uninterested, virtuous, icy, dispassionate, placid, brittle, unfaithful, phlegmatic, treacherous, indifferent, insouciant, hard-eyed, serene, collected, virginal, maidenly, Coldish, glacial, undisturbed, imperturbable, cold-blooded, celibate, unemotional, Pococurante, uncordial, disloyal, uneager, uncurious, emotionless, gelid, prudish, cold, inconstant, chilly, straitlaced, clammy, smooth, platonic, dry, calm, impersonal, victorian, traitorous, frozen, lily-white, cold-eyed, impassive, modest, incurious, wintry, innocent.
Quotes of passionate
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I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
– Jeffrey Archer -
I'm very passionate about what I do.
– Kevyn Aucoin -
There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.
– Kevyn Aucoin -
My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.
– Herman Cain -
I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.
– Jeanne Calment -
I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good- pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.
– Steve Case -
Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate and willing to learn.
– Robin Cousins -
Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.
– Rose Franken -
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
– Sammy Hagar -
So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
– Barbara Hershey -
I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
– Lauryn Hill -
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.
– Sylvia Kristel -
When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.
– James Lipton -
I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.
– Maria Mitchell
Usage examples for passionate
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“ She took his hands with passionate tenderness, and pressed them to her lips. ”
– NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER by L. Muhlbach -
“ He was standing where she left him, both hands locked together till they were white with the passionate pressure. ”
– Moods by Louisa May Alcott -
“ 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 -
“ His reply was short and passionate and the reader shall see it. ”
– The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope -
“ 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 -
“ 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 -
“ Passionate sobs rise in her throat, and almost overcome her. ”
– Faith and Unfaith by Duchess -
“ 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 -
“ Her eyes are gazing with passionate question into his. ”
– A Little Rebel by Mrs. Hungerford -
“ 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 -
“ The thought rushed through Faith's heart with passionate longing. ”
– The Beggar Man by Ruby Mildred Ayres -
“ 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 -
“ He shuddered as the passionate notes swept over his senses. ”
– The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker -
“ 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 -
“ The passionate weeping ceased, and the proud, sad face grew calm and still. ”
– Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Braeme -
“ 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 -
“ 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 -
“ But what he did was done with passionate devotion. ”
– In Mesopotamia by Martin Swayne -
“ Why should not there be passionate love between us? ”
– Nancy A Novel by Rhoda Broughton -
“ 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