Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

passion-ridden

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English

Syllables: pas-sion-rid-den
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Dominated or controlled by the passions (as opposed to the intellect, for example).

Example Sentences

"[…] it needs little penetration to enable one to declare that the country will come out of such a struggle sadder, perhaps wiser, and certainly shorn of its wealth and greatness to an extent of which the passion-ridden or self-seeking advocates of strife, and the unreflecting multitude who cheer them on, take no thought."
"[The song] summed up for him, in sweet harmonies, the destinies of living beings, the distressed agony of a flaming, passion-ridden world, and appealed to him, in the name of the immense pity that filled his soul, to go forth with his message of hope and liberation, and save the world."
"The nationalities issue is deeply disturbed and the deterioration is deepening […] There is an irrational and passion-ridden atmosphere."

Etymology

From passion + ridden.

Inflected Forms

more passion-ridden (comparative) most passion-ridden (superlative)

Questions

What does passion-ridden mean?: Dominated or controlled by the passions (as opposed to the intellect, for example).
Where does passion-ridden come from?: From passion + ridden.

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