IMPASSIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impassioned mean? 

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

1. characterized by intense emotion

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPASSIONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by intense emotion

Synonyms:

ardent; fervent; fervid; fiery; impassioned; perfervid; torrid

Context example:

a torrid love affair

Similar:

passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)

 Context examples 

What he sought was an impassioned realism, shot through with human aspiration and faith.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was going to say, impassioned: but perhaps you would have misunderstood the word, and been displeased.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I conjured him, incoherently, but in the most impassioned manner, not to abandon himself to this wildness, but to hear me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At a little later period he began to make impassioned pleas for death, to beg her to kill him, to beg Hans to put him our of his misery so that he might at least rest comfortably.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

His father's looks of solemnity and amazement on this his first appearance on any stage, and the gradual metamorphosis of the impassioned Baron Wildenheim into the well-bred and easy Mr. Yates, making his bow and apology to Sir Thomas Bertram, was such an exhibition, such a piece of true acting, as he would not have lost upon any account.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For, though shy, he did not seem reserved; it had rather the appearance of feelings glad to burst their usual restraints; and having talked of poetry, the richness of the present age, and gone through a brief comparison of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he showed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of the other; he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The strength that had always poured out from him to her was now flowering in his impassioned voice, his flashing eyes, and the vigor of life and intellect surging in him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As to my own will or conscience, impassioned grief had trampled one and stifled the other.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I bound myself by the required promise, in a most impassioned manner; called upon Traddles to witness it; and denounced myself as the most atrocious of characters if I ever swerved from it in the least degree.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The rest of us walked out on the porch, where Sloane and the lady began an impassioned conversation aside.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)