PASSIONATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passionate mean? 

• PASSIONATE (adjective)
  The adjective PASSIONATE has 1 sense:

1. having or expressing strong emotions

  Familiarity information: PASSIONATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSIONATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or expressing strong emotions

Similar:

ablaze; aflame; aroused (keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement)

ardent; fervent; fervid; fiery; impassioned; perfervid; torrid (characterized by intense emotion)

choleric (easily moved to anger)

demon-ridden (as if possessed by demons)

fanatic; fanatical; overzealous; rabid (marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea)

concupiscent; lustful; lusty (vigorously passionate)

wild (in a state of extreme emotion)

Also:

emotional (of more than usual emotion)

enthusiastic (having or showing great excitement and interest)

hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

Antonym:

passionless (not passionate)

Derivation:

passionateness (a strong feeling or emotion)

 Context examples 

This full moon is more about feelings than about a gift—you may become engaged or married in this happy, passionate month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Faults!” she cried, bursting into passionate tears.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But he caught my hand in a passionate grip one night, saying:

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The poor man was more loud than ever, and though I could not distinguish a word he said, I could in some way recognise in his tones some passionate entreaty on his part.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Such are the views which, with much passionate distortion of his thin features and wagging of his thin, goat-like beard, he poured into our ears all the way from Southampton to Manaos.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"But that is impossible!" she cried, withdrawing herself from his arms with a swift, passionate movement.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was of Welsh blood, fiery and passionate.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)