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1passionate — [pash′ə nit] adj. [ME passionat < ML passionatus] 1. having or showing strong feelings; full of passion 2. easily angered; hot tempered 3. resulting from, expressing, or tending to arouse strong feeling; ardent; intense; impassioned [a… …
2passionate — index demonstrative (expressive of emotion), eager, ecstatic, fanatical, fervent, hot blooded, impulsive (rash) …
3passionate — /ˈpæʃənət/ (say pashuhnuht) adjective 1. affected with or dominated by passion or vehement emotion: a passionate advocate of socialism. 2. characterised by, expressing, or showing vehement emotion; impassioned: passionate language. 3. vehement,… …
4passionate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. impassioned, vehement; irascible. See feeling, excitability, irascibility.Ant., disinterested, passive, dispassionate. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Excitable] Syn. vehement, hotheaded, tempestuous;… …
5passionate — passionately, adv. passionateness, n. /pash euh nit/, adj. 1. having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism. 2. easily aroused to or influenced by sexual desire; ardently sensual.… …
6passionate — pas•sion•ate [[t]ˈpæʃ ə nɪt[/t]] adj. 1) having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid; zealous 2) easily aroused to or influenced by sexual desire; ardently sensual 3) expressing, showing, or marked by intense or… …
7Plato: aesthetics and psychology — Christopher Rowe Plato’s ideas about literature and art and about beauty (his ‘aesthetics’) are heavily influenced and in part actually determined by his ideas about the mind or soul (his ‘psychology’).1 It is therefore appropriate to deal with… …
8English Literature — • Latin, French, Italian, Greek, and Spanish literatures are a few of the influences Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. English Literature English Literature …
9fire — noun 1》 the state of burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and give out bright light, heat, and smoke. ↘a destructive burning. ↘one of the four elements in ancient and medieval philosophy and in… …
10fire — ► NOUN 1) the state of burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and give out bright light, heat, and smoke. 2) an instance of destructive burning. 3) wood or coal burnt in a hearth or stove for heating or cooking.… …