Definition of Passionate

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Passionate

Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature.

Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship.

Suffering; sorrowful.

To affect with passion; to impassion.

To express feelingly or sorrowfully.

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Passionate Quotations

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
Eric Hoffer

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Eric Hoffer

Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth

Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.
Hillary Clinton

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats

Passionate Translations

passionate in Dutch is hartstochtelijk
passionate in Latin is animosus, fervidus
passionate in Spanish is apasionado

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