- having or showing strong feelings of sexual love or of anger, etc.
- to have a passionate nature
Wordfinder- affair
- date
- go out with somebody
- jealous
- love
- marriage
- partner
- passionate
- relationship
- romantic
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsb2, Feelingsb2- His guitar playing was passionate and extremely skilful.
- a passionate kiss/embrace/affair/lover
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- having or showing strong feelings of enthusiasm for something or belief in something
- a passionate interest in music
- a passionate defender of civil liberties
Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesb2- He makes no secret of his passionate commitment to the nationalist cause.
- She is passionate about her work.
Word Originlate Middle English (also in the senses ‘easily moved to passion’ and ‘enraged’): from medieval Latin passionatus ‘full of passion’, from passio (chiefly a term in Christian theology), from Latin pati ‘suffer’.
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