passionateadj.n.
/ˈpaʃn̩ət/, /ˈpaʃənət/, U.S. /ˈpæʃ(ə)nət/ A. adj.
1. Esp. of a person: susceptible to or readily swayed by passions or emotions; easily moved to strong feeling; of changeable mood, volatile.
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the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > subject to passion or strong emotion
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vehementa1492
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red-hot1593
salamandry1610
hot-bloodeda1616
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warm-blooded1831
passionful1842
brimstony1885
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 85 (MED) Oþire þere weren whiche folowiden Cristis teching, passionat creatures as ȝe be, resonable and deedly, wiþ striif of þe flesch aȝeins þe spirit..and ful manye seyntis whiche weren trauelid wiþ dyuerse passyouns.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xii. 22 To make him [sc. God] ambitious of honour,..angrie, vindicatiue,..indigent of mans worships: finally so passionate as in effect he shold be altogether Anthropopathis.
a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) ii. sig. D2 Thou art passionate, hast thou beene brought up with girles.
a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) ii. ii. 23 You..have the power To make me passionate as an April-day: now smile, then weep; now pale, then crimson red.
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 525 God will not..admit of the Passionate man's Apology, That he has so long given his Unruly Passions their Head, that he cannot now Govern or Controul them.
1733 A. Pope Ess. on Man in Wks. (1736) II. 41 Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. Pref. p. xviii The passionate Eastern character, like all weak ones, found total abstinence easier than temperance.
1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) iii. 78 Those hot and sudden friendships which men of passionate temper rush into.
1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of X iii. x. 307 This man, choleric, strong-willed, of passionate temperament, his life probably a succession of juggernaut impulses.
1991 K. Jones Learning not to be First i. 5 Christina was the more fractious of the two, passionate and given to terrible tantrums.
2. † a. Of a person: enraged, angry. Frequently with for. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective]
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teed off1955
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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 1654 (MED) Wood & wroþe was he..And inwardly of rancour passionat.
1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow iii. 84 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 306 Susan angrit heirat as oft woman is Quhile passionat that all consaitis kennis Tuk in disdane this gift.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iii. 249 Also, not to be passionate for small detriments or offences, nor to be a reuenger of them but in cases of great iniurie.
1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre i. 42 Men..are more passionate for injustice, then for violence.
1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. i. ii. 16 Daniel knew, that although his Brother was far from being passionate for Trifles, yet that his whole Frame would be so shaken by any ill Usage from him, he would not be able to command himself.
c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches I. 278 He was violently passionate when he conceived himself wronged.
b. Esp. of a person: easily moved to, or prone to, anger; hot-tempered, irascible. Now archaic and rare.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person)
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a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 43 A passionat [L. passionatus] man turniþ good into euel.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 320/1 Passyonate, inclyned sone to be in a passyon.
1613 G. Chapman Reuenge Bussy D'Ambois iii. sig. F2v Homer made Achilles passionate, Wrathfull, reuengefull, and insatiate In his affections.
1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 111 Like a City without a Wall..: so is a Family, when guided by a passionate violent man.
1710 M. Chudleigh Ess. Several Subj. 116 Titles and Places of Trust..will not justify their being Proud, Imperious, Passionate, Cruel and Revengeful.
1781 W. Cowper Friendship 64 A temper passionate and fierce May suddenly your joys disperse At one immense explosion.
1841 T. B. Macaulay Leigh Hunt in Ess. (1887) 614 Though passionate and often wrong~headed, he [sc. Collier] was a singularly fair controversialist.
1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 May 538/2 He was passionate in the obsolete sense of the word, given to violent and apparently ungovernable fits of rage.
c. Of an action, speech, etc.: marked by anger.
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the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [adjective] > of speech: angry
choleric1567
passionatea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream (1623) iii. ii. 221 I am amazed at your passionate words.
1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. vii. 240 This Passionate Expletive.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 107. ⁋1 To vent peevish Expressions, or give passionate or inconsistent Orders.
1754 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) v. 39 Towards servants, never accustom yourself to rough and passionate language.
1863 F. Kemble tr. F. Schiller Mary Stuart v. i. 409 Tell her I do forgive her heartily, And for my passionate words of yesterday Heartily beg her pardon.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xx. 93 The debates were long, fierce, and often passionate.
1990 Times (Nexis) 13 Oct. (Features section) Going into storms of passionate abuse whenever students said they liked anything.
2000 Africa News (Nexis) 18 Dec. (News section) Passionate quarrels suddenly start erupting..over seemingly insignificant issues.
3.
a. Of a person: affected with passion or strong feeling; dominated by intense emotion; ardently enthusiastic. Also: zealously devoted, attached, or loyal.
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the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > affected with passion or strong emotion
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > vehement or passionate desire > [adjective] > vehemently or passionately desirous
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luxurious1614
mada1627
concupitive1651
sultry1671
hot-tempered1673
ardurousa1770
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nympholeptic1818
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a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. li To renne hedlynge without feare vpon all ieopardyes, as communly passionate persones doth.
1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule of Holy Living (1727) ii. §2 65 That by enkindling thy desire to heavenly banquets, thou may'st be indifferent and less passionate for the earthly.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxiv. 127 Cicero, (a passionate defender of Liberty).
1671 tr. R. Fréjus Relation Voy. Mauritania 15 I am..Your Majesties most Humble, most Obedient, and Passionate Servant.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 21. ¶3 Lawyers..that are more or less passionate according as they are paid for it.
1789 W. Belsham Ess. II. xl. 519 Passionate dogmatists, the avowed enemies of discussion.
1805 R. Southey Madoc i. x. 100 He..swept, with passionate hand, the ringing harp.
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 573 Her husband's house and garden were daily thronged with her passionate admirers.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiv. 215 The army was now passionate for an engagement.
1902 A. Symons Poems I. 144 O white soul of youth, So passionate of truth, So amorous of duty.
1958 K. Amis I like it Here iv. 44 His wife..was frequently described as passionate without it being revealed what she was passionate about or at.
1988 Bella 4 Apr. 6/5 Since her daughter's abduction, Suzy's mother Diana has become a passionate campaigner for the safety of women at work.
2001 Observer 18 Mar. (Britain Uncovered Suppl.) 39/1 The children are..fiercely passionate about Islam.
b. Of an emotion: vehement, heartfelt.
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the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective]
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1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie To Rdr. sig. *vj The one thicke powdered wyth manly passionat pangs, the other watered wyth wominishe teares.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon To Ladie Hales sig. *2 By such passionate sorowes.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvii. 245 So vnremoued stood these steeds; their heads to earth let fall, And warme teares gushing from their eyes, with passionate desire, Of their kind manager.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. §15. 160 Crucifixion was an excellent pain, sharp and passionate.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 243 They bear a passionate affection to their Princes.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 182 The Man fell into..Transports of a passionate Joy.
1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage I. vi. 206 His declaration of passionate attachment to Caroline.
1818 R. Southey Ode Death Queen Charlotte iii With a passionate sorrow we bewail'd Youth on the untimely bier.
1881 W. Robertson in Sunday Mag. Apr. 245 The passionate absorbedness with which again and again intellect has plumbed its way forward in search for God.
1930 D. L. Sayers Strong Poison ii. 34 Especially where the parties are husband and wife..there are likely to be passionate feelings which may tend to crimes of violence.
1960 J. F. Lehmann I am my Brother ii. vii. 108 The glimpses of passionate devotion to his art that came through his letters.
2000 J. Caughie Television Drama iii. 84 A passionate desire to cultivate and preserve the ‘life-enhancing’ in culture.
c. Of action, speech, etc.: imbued with passion; marked or characterized by strong emotion; expressive of intense feeling.
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the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > characterized by passion
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fevered1744
inflammatory1874
full-hearted1876
Latin1914
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B3 Their passionate describing of passions.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 199 To these he made a passionate speech, to exhort them to unite.
1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) i. 39 In some kind of Musicke less Passionate or Affectuous..Points of Division may be used.
1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons v. 53 I have been often amazed at the rude, passionate and mistaken Results, which have at certain Times fallen from great Assemblies.
1726 Duke of Wharton in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 339 Every virulent vote, every passionate reproach..are so many real commendations of my conduct.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lviii. 261 Forgive this passionate language.
1845 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 174/1 The interjection rises from a scarcely articulate sound to a passionate, and almost to an enunciative sentence.
1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 192 The beautiful and passionate Sonata in A which was inspired by and dedicated to his [sc. Beethoven's] friend Madame Ertmann.
1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. xvii The passionate penny-collecting of the Flag Days was brought under some sort of regulation.
1995 Time 27 Nov. 104/2 The passionate heart of the book remains the early Brooklyn years.
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Jan. a28/3 We have engaged in passionate discussions about how best to accomplish the goals.
4. Expressive of or characterized by intense love; dominated or moved by deep sexual love or desire; †affected with love, infatuated (obsolete).
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective]
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keen1936
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > (of love) ardent or passionate
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1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Biv And so must I shewe for louers be in rate Somtymes mery but most tymes passyonate.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 12 Such fyne dames as..make suche course accompt of theyr passionate louers.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. C3 Seeing by the shepheards passionate lookes, that the swaine was halfe in loue.
1632 J. Shirley Changes i. 6 My wife is passionate and affects this Knight.
1704 R. Steele Lying Lover i. 7 Judge..what the condition of a passionate Man must be, that can approach the Hand only of her he dies for.
1865 Reader 20 May 561/2 Claim passionate tenderness as especially feminine, and the inquiry is made whether all the best love-poetry in existence..has not been written by men.
1894 H. James Notebks. (1947) 170 The idea of the physical possession, the brief physical, passionate rapture.
1945 L. Glassop We were Rats xxxi. 178 His hungry kisses were returned with passionate abandon.
1982 F. Raphael Byron (1988) 56 Their romance dwindled into a matter more of ardent marivaudage than of passionate demonstration.
2001 Premiere Nov. 61/1 [She] is having a passionate affair with Tedrow.
5. † a. That moves to compassion; pitiful. Obsolete.† b. Moved with sorrow; grieving, sad, sorrowful. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [adjective]
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xii. sig. Pp6v Melting with compassion at so passionate a sight.
1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. C2 In Tragick plaints and passionate mischance.
1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 145 A pilgrims passage is such a passionate progresse, as it cannot bee pursued without sobs.
1657 H. Hammond Some Profitable Direct. Priest & People 24 To act no passionate, lugubrious, tragical part.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective]
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1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. O5v These things..permit you not For suche losse of riches, possessions, children or friendes to become passionate.
1594 Warres of Cyrus iv. His grace is alwayes passionate and sad, If she be mentioned.
1613 G. Chapman Reuenge Bussy D'Ambois iv. sig. H1v Be not so passionate: rise, cease your teares.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 545 She is sad and passionate at your highnes Tent. View more context for this quotation
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 71 Ecbar (who loved him dearly) becomes so passionate, that for..some time [he] refused to be comforted.
c. Inclined to pity, compassionate. Now English regional.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > [adjective] > inclined to
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caring1966
a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) i. iv. 115 I hope this passionate [1597 holy] humor of mine, will change, It was wont to hold me but while one tels twenty.
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 520 Them, that have had the longest and passionatest treaty of mercy.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 432/2 [Dorset] Master's very good to his workpeople, he's so pash'nate.
B. n.
1. A person who is affected with passion or strong emotion; (in early use) spec. a person who is in love.
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the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun]
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1651 tr. F. de Quintana Hist. Don Fenise 78 It came into my fancie to give a serenade to my wife, counterfeiting the amorous passionate.
1751 S. Richardson Corr. (1804) III. 182 When the passionates (forgive the word) break fences, leap from windows, climb walls, swim rivers.
1819 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1857) I. 234 I could..have joined the passionates in clapping.
1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles I. xv. 222 The fear of ridicule—an always prevalent fear with the tribe of passionates.
1950 A. Wilson Wrong Set 123 All those Bretonnes and Reds and passionates, and Trevor going off to demos.
1993 Evening Standards (Nexis) 25 May 46 2,150 well-dressed passionates sweating with intense excitement at every emotional surge.
2. With plural agreement. With the. Passionate or angry people as a class. rare.
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1686 A. Woodhead Protestants Plea for Socinian i. 7 The non-consideration of which by the passionate or unlearned is the mother of all errors.
1710 M. Chudleigh Ess. Several Subj. 70 Virtue and Vice would not be join'd, the Meek would not then be constrain'd to sigh out their Hours with the Passionate.
1967 G. Vidal Holy Family in I. Hamilton Penguin Bk. 20th-cent. Ess. (1999) 401 [Politicians regard] public statements as necessary noises to soothe the electorate or deflect the wrath of the passionate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† passionatev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To excite or imbue with passion, or with a particular emotion, as love, fear, anger, etc.; = passion v. 1a. Occasionally intransitive. poetic in later use.
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the mind > emotion > passion > affect with passion or strong emotion [verb (transitive)]
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to move a person's blood1697
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xli. f. 118 This Traitour..passionated not with Loue, but rather with rage and furie.
1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession sig. d4 He fortuned to meete certaine labouryng menne..who perceiuyng by his geasture, that he was passionated in his thoughtes [etc.].
1598 F. Meres Palladis Tamia in G. G. Smith Elizabethan Crit. Ess. (1904) II. 316 Every one passionateth when he readeth the afflicted death of Daniel's distressed Rosamund.
1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 88 It shall not so much passionate me, but I will doe my best for my worst maligner.
1652 T. Pestill For Author in E. Benlowes Theophila Beaumont and Fletcher coyn'd a golden Way, T'expresse, suspend, and passionate a Play.
1690 tr. Moral Ess. Soul Man (new ed.) ii. x. 228 To be passionated with any desire.
a1868 C. Harpur Bard of Paradise in Poet. Wks. (1984) 310 Her all-felt perfection gives the voice Of the regarded waters to rejoice Gladlier, and passionates each passing breeze!
1886 H. S. Sutton Poems 8 Her light, no longer friendly, when a flood of chill lone feeling passionates and thrills Our hearts.
2. transitive. To express or perform with passion.
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the mind > emotion > passion > affect with passion or strong emotion [verb (transitive)] > express passionately
passionate1567
breathe1572
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxix. f. 330 Nowe leaue we this amorous Hermite to passionate & plaine his misfortune.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 246 Play-houses, where the parts of women are acted by women, and too naturally passionated.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (1623) iii. ii. 6 Thy Neece and I..want our hands And cannot passionate our tenfold griefe, Wi[t]h foulded Armes.
3. transitive. To regard or treat with compassion; to pity. rare.
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the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity for [verb (transitive)]
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1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 48 I finde more contentment in your passionating me.
4. transitive. To desire passionately. rare.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > vehement or passionate desire > desire vehemently or passionately [verb (transitive)]
rage1509
passionate1652
1652 R. Loveday tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra i. 2 The Knight..whom powerfull Reasons obliged to passionate the others Ruin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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