Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Filled with passion; fervent.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Actuated or animated by passion; expressive of passion or ardor of feeling; animated; excited.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • past participle Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective characterized by intense emotion

Etymologies

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From impassion +‎ -ed.

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Examples

  • English, stimulating his sexual desire to that fever-heat which they called impassioned living.

    The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • And Jobim s Retrato em Blanco E Preto, Inutil Paisaje, and Dindi are rendered in impassioned ballad, bossa nova-scat, and John Coltrane-ish settings.

    HW Pick: Magos Herrera, Luna Menguante Barluna « 2010

  • Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the God-given right of an eight-hour day, and at the time be working their own business against seventeen hours out of the twenty-four.

    THE SCAB 2010

  • So far Arabic metre is true to Nature: in impassioned speech the movement of language is iambic: we say “I will, I will,” not

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He blows up, and in impassioned language forswears and disowns Rosalia, the five children, and all memory of them and responsibility for them, forever and forever.

    Lawgivers 1914

  • Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the God-given right of an eight-hour day, and at the time be working their own business against seventeen hours out of the twenty-four.

    THE SCAB 1905

  • Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the

    The Scab 1905

  • Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the God-given right of an eight-hour day, and at the time be working their own business against seventeen hours out of the twenty-four.

    The Scab 1904

  • The word impassioned would seem misplaced, if applied to any of Mr. Emerson's orations.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

  • The difficulty was that in impassioned moments the mustache was apt to get awry; and once or twice, while on his knees before Tina in tragical attitudes, this occurrence set her off into hysterical giggles, which spoiled the effect of the rehearsal.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

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