passionate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fill with passion, or with another given emotion. obsolete
    — Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
  2. To express with great emotion. obsolete
    — Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.
形容词 adj.
  1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
    — Mandy is a passionate lover.
  2. Fired with intense feeling.
    — 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.
  3. Suffering; sorrowful. obsolete
    — She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.

词形变化

more passionate comparative most passionate superlative passionates present,singular,third-person passionating participle,present passionated participle,past passionated past

词汇关系

衍生词
nonpassionate overpassionate passionate friendship passionately passionateness unpassionate
相关词
impassion impassionate impassioned passion passive passivity patience patient

词源

词源 1
From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.
词源 2
From passion + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French passionner.
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