Impassioned

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impassioned \Im*pas"sioned\, p. p. & a.
     Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth
     of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned
     orator or discourse.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impassioned
       adj : characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent
             lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to
             change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory";
             "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: {ardent},
              {burning(a)}, {fervent}, {fervid}, {fiery}, {perfervid},
              {torrid}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "impassioned":
     abandoned, ablaze, afire, agog, amative, amatory, amorous,
     animated, aquiver, ardent, aroused, atingle, atwitter, blazing,
     boiling over, breathless, burning, bursting, carried away,
     committed, cordial, dedicated, deep, delirious, desirous, devoted,
     devout, dithyrambic, drunk, eager, earnest, ebullient,
     effervescent, emotional, emphatic, enthusiastic, erotic, excited,
     exciting, exhilarated, exuberant, faithful, febrile, fervent,
     fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, fired, flaming, flushed,
     furious, glowing, gushing, gushy, hearty, heated, high, hopped up,
     hot, hot-blooded, in earnest, inflamed, inspired, intense, intent,
     intent on, intoxicated, keen, keyed up, lascivious, lathered up,
     lively, loverlike, loverly, loyal, manic, maudlin, melodramatic,
     moved, mushy, on fire, overemotional, overheated, passionate,
     perfervid, profound, provoking, ready to burst, red-hot, resolute,
     romantic, roused, rousing, sentimental, serious, sexual, sincere,
     spirited, steamed up, steaming, steamy, stimulated, stimulating,
     stirred, stirred up, stirring, thrilled, tingling, tingly, torrid,
     turned-on, unrestrained, urgent, vehement, vigorous, violent, warm,
     whipped up, white-hot, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, zealous