# passionate

Pronunciation: say "PASH-uh-nit" /ˈpæʃənɪt/

## Adjective

1. Filled with intense feeling, conviction, or enthusiasm.
   - Simple: Full of strong feeling about something.
   - _Their passionate defense of the proposal won over the entire committee._
   - _She remained passionate about reform throughout her long political career._
2. Inclined to strong feeling, which may be romantic, sexual, or both.
   - Simple: Having strong feelings, sometimes about love or desire.
   - _Their relationship was passionate and intense from the very first week._
   - _She wrote passionate verses to the woman she had fallen in love with._

## Adjective

3. Suffering deeply; weighed down by grief or sorrow. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Full of sorrow or suffering.

## Verb

Pronunciation: say "PASH-uh-nayt" /ˈpæʃəneɪt/

4. To fill a person with passion, or with another strong emotion. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To fill someone with strong feeling.
5. To utter or voice something aloud with great emotion. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To say something aloud with very strong feeling.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–3** — From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus meaning "affected, impassioned, or easily angered." It combines "passion" with the adjective-forming suffix "-ate," and is comparable to French passionné.
**Meanings 4–5** — Formed from "passion" plus the verb-forming suffix "-ate," and cognate with French passionner.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/passionate (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).