passionate
AdjektivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- //ˈpæʃənɪt//
- //ˈpæʃənət//
- //ˈpæʃəneɪt//
Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
Adjektiv
- 1
Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
Mandy is a passionate lover.
- 2
Fired with intense feeling.
- 3
veraltetSuffering; sorrowful.
She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.
Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
Herkunft
From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.
Verb
- 1
veraltetTo fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
- 2
veraltetTo express with great emotion.
Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.
Herkunft
From passion + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French passionner.
Formen
- Komparativ
- more passionate
- Superlativ
- most passionate
- Präteritum
- passionated
- Partizip II
- passionated
- Partizip I
- passionating
- 3. Person Singular
- passionates
passionate · Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
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