impassioned

English

Alternative forms

• empassioned [16th–18th c.]

Etymology

From impassion +‎ -ed.

Adjective

impassioned (comparative more impassioned, superlative most impassioned)

1. Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […]

   • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “In which the Occurrence of the Accident mentioned in the last Chapter, affords an opportunity to a couple of Gentlemen to tell Stories against each other”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:

     The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.

Translations

fervent

• Bulgarian: страстен (bg) (strasten), пламенен (bg) (plamenen)
• Czech: vášnivý (cs), plamenný (cs) m
• German: leidenschaftlich (de), erregt (de)
• Italian: appassionato (it) m
• Sanskrit: चण्ड (sa) (caṇḍa)