impassioned

im·pas·sioned

[im-pash-uhnd]
adjective
filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate; ardent.

Origin:
1595–1605; impassion + -ed2

im·pas·sioned·ly, adverb
im·pas·sioned·ness, noun
un·im·pas·sioned, adjective
un·im·pas·sioned·ly, adverb


emotional, vehement, fervent, fiery.


apathetic.
Dictionary.com Unabridged

im·pas·sion

[im-pash-uhn]
verb (used with object)
to fill, or affect strongly, with intense feeling or passion; inflame; excite.

Origin:
1585–95; < Italian impassionare. See im-1, passion

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source Link To impassioned
00:10
Impassioned is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Collins
World English Dictionary
impassion (ɪmˈpæʃən) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
vb
(tr) to arouse the passions of; inflame

impassioned (ɪmˈpæʃənd) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
filled with passion; fiery; inflamed: an impassioned appeal
 
im'passionedly
 
adv
 
im'passionedness
 
n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT