passionate
/ˈpæʃənɪt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Mandy is a passionate lover."
- "1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93, Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms."
- "She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent."
- "Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,"
- "Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...]."
- "Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms."
Etymology
From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.
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Word Breakdown
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Inflected Forms
more passionate (comparative)
most passionate (superlative)
passionates (present, singular)
passionating (participle, present)
passionated (participle, past)
passionated (past)