English > passionate: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Having or expressing strong emotions. |
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| Narrower | ablaze, aflame, aroused | keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement |
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| ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid | Characterized by intense emotion |
| choleric | easily moved to anger |
| demon-ridden | As if possessed by demons |
| fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid | marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea |
| lustful, lusty, concupiscent | vigorously passionate |
| wild | In a state of extreme / extreme emotion |
| See also | emotional | Of more than usual emotion |
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| enthusiastic | Having or showing great excitement / excitement and interest |
| hot | Extended meanings |
| loving | Feeling or showing love and affection |
| Opposite | passionless | not passionate |
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| Spanish | apasionada, apasionado, ferviente |
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| Catalan | apassionat, fervent |
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| Nouns | passionateness | a strong feeling or emotion |
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| Adverbs | passionately | with passion |
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