impassionedim‧pas‧sioned /ɪmˈpæʃənd/ adjective 
She appeared on television to make an impassioned plea for help. an impassioned speech
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Moore gave an impassioned defense of the government's role in the affair.
- Muir was an impassioned and persuasive champion of wilderness preservation.
- Robins criticized the investigation during an impassioned speech outside police headquarters.
- But this singing was different, not quiet holy hymns but loud and impassioned.
- Caterina had not really understood the argument; but she now reconstituted her father's impassioned argument for contracts.
- He appeared unrepentant and impassioned in favour of us developing our nuclear muscle - for defence.
- His lips were impassioned and she swum dizzily in the swarm of love that buzzed through her.
- It was an impassioned, largely peaceful protest.
- Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo.
- There was an eloquent and impassioned speech from Mr Wash, Woolridge's defence lawyer.
- You can see why everyone is not a Highsmith fan, and perhaps why some of us are impassioned ones.
Longman Language Activatorbehaving in a way that shows strong feelings
behaving in a way that shows that you have strong feelings about something, for example by crying or shouting: · Grandpa gets very emotional when he talks about the war.emotional outburst (=a sudden powerful expression of strong emotion): · In an emotional outburst, Shahidi told reporters she now had no life worth living.
use this about people who openly show very strong feelings about something, especially love or anger: · She was a handsome Spanish woman with a passionate nature and a warm, generous heart.· Sometimes I wish he was more passionate, not so rational about everything.
if you say, do, or write something with feeling , you do it in a way that shows you have strong feelings about it: · I want you to sing it once more, this time with feeling.· She writes with great feeling about the fate of the refugees, having been a refugee herself in the last year.
an impassioned speech, request, argument etc is full of strong feeling and emotion: · Robins criticized the investigation during an impassioned speech outside police headquarters.· Moore gave an impassioned defense of the government's role in the affair.an impassioned supporter/defender/champion of something: · Muir was an impassioned and persuasive champion of wilderness preservation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She appeared on television to make an impassioned plea for help.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
full of strong feeling and emotion: She appeared on television to make an impassioned plea for help. (=full of strong feeling)· She made impassioned speeches on civil rights.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· The sisters are concerned and making an impassioned plea.· The Princess Royal yesterday made an impassioned plea for help on behalf of the country's six million carers.· The parents' impassioned pleas that the best places of safety for their children were with their families was disregarded.· If the impassioned pleas are directed at those close to the culprits, I can not see them having much effect.
She appeared on television to make an impassioned plea for help. an impassioned speech