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1 Passionate -- rank: 1000

Passionate definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PAS'SIONATE, a. 1. Easily ... insult; applied to persons. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. 2. Highly excited; vehement; warm; applied to things; as passionate affection; passionate desire; passionate concern. 3. Expressing strong emotion; animated; as passionate eloquence. PAS'SIONATE, v.t. To affect with passion; ...

2 Hot -- rank: 611

... pungent. 4 (of a person) feeling heat. 5 a ardent, passionate, excited. b (often foll. by for, on) eager, keen (in ... of heated air forced into a furnace. hot-blooded ardent, passionate. hot cathode a cathode heated to emit electrons. hot cross ... a sexually attractive person. 4 a spirited, strong-willed, or passionate person. 5 a book, film, etc. with a strongly erotic ... Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful. --Dryden. There ... animated; brisk; vehement; precipitate; violent; furious; ardent; fervent; impetuous; irascible; passionate; hasty; excitable. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Hote Hote, v. t ... of high temperature (said of weather). 3. Irascible, excitable, impetuous, passionate, hasty, choleric, furious, touchy, violent. 4. Ardent, vehement, fervent, ...

3 Ardent -- rank: 578

... ardent eyes. 3. Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; affectionate; much engaged; zealous; as, ardent love or vows; ardent ... Dictionary adj. 1 eager, zealous; (of persons or feelings) fervent, passionate. 2 burning. Derivatives: ardency n. ardently adv. Etymology: ME f ... eyes. --Dryden. 3. Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper ... fiery; glowing; intense; fierce; vehement; eager; zealous; keen; fervid; fervent; passionate; affectionate. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Ardent is used to describe ... the most ardent supporters of the administration's policy. = fervent, passionate ADJ: usu ADJ n Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Hot, burning, fiery. 2. Warm, passionate, fervent, impassioned, eager, intense, keen, sharp, vehement, fierce, fiery, ...

4 Impetuous -- rank: 499

... wind; an impetuous torrent. 2. Vehement of mind; fierce; hasty; passionate; violent; as a man of impetuous temper. WordNet (r) 3 ... forward with impetuous speed. --Byron. 2. Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper. The people, on ... Syn: Forcible; rapid; hasty; precipitate; furious; boisterous; violent; raging; fierce; passionate. -- Im*pet"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Im*pet"u*ous ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Vehement, violent, furious, fierce, passionate, precipitate, hasty, hot, over-zealous, headlong. Moby Thesaurus abrupt, accident ... nonpermanent, offhand, on edge, overeager, overenthusiastic, overhasty, overzealous, panting, passing, passionate, peppy, perishable, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick, rambling, rash, reckless, restive ...

5 Impassioned -- rank: 499

... zeal ; showing great warmth or intensity of feeling Synonyms: impassioned, passionate, ardent, fervent, fervid, perfervid mean showing intense feeling. impassioned implies ... and suggests fluent verbal expression < an impassioned plea for justice >. passionate implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful diffusion of emotion < a passionate denunciation >. ardent implies an intense degree of zeal, devotion, or ... usu ADJ n Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Passionate, vehement, impetuous, glowing, intense, excited, animated, fervid, fervent, zealous, warm ... loyal, manic, maudlin, melodramatic, moved, mushy, on fire, overemotional, overheated, passionate, perfervid, profound, provoking, ready to burst, red-hot, resolute, romantic ...

6 Love -- rank: 499

... own. --Keble. 2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex. He on his ... as thy self. --Matt. xxii. 39. 2. To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the ... least not inviting him to draw near, as in the passionate yearning of his heart he desired now to do. Therefore ... with affection, delight in, be fond of. 2. Have a passionate affection for, be in love with, be enamoured of. 3 ... Affection, affectionate regard, friendship, kindness, tenderness, fondness, delight. 2. Attachment, passionate affection, the tender passion. 3. Liking, fondness, inclination, devotion, strong ...

7 Vehement -- rank: 499

... heat. 2. Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent; passionate; as, a vehement affection or passion. ``Vehement instigation.'' --Shak. ``Vehement desire.'' --Milton. Syn: Furious; violent; raging; impetuous; passionate; ardent; eager; hot; fervid; burning. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary If ... Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Impetuous, violent, furious, rampant, passionate, high, hot, high-wrought. 2. Ardent, zealous, eager, keen, earnest, fervid, enthusiastic, sanguine, passionate, burning. 3. Strong, forcible, powerful, mighty, very great. Moby Thesaurus ... laborious, lively, loyal, mordacious, mordant, never idle, on fire, outrageous, passionate, penetrating, perfervid, piercing, poignant, potent, powerful, pronounced, provoking, rabid, red ...

8 Quick -- rank: 446

... her his charge of quick return Repeated. --Milton. 4. Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper. The ... sharp, shrewd, keen, intelligent, sagacious, discerning, sensitive. 5. Excitable, restless, passionate. 6. Hasty, precipitate, sharp, unceremonious, choleric, passionate, testy, irritable, touchy, waspish, petulant, irascible, peppery, snappish. 7. Alive ... double, on the job, on the spot, overhasty, panting, passing, passionate, peppery, perceptive, perfunctory, perspicacious, petulant, pith, plastic, pliable, pliant, politic ...

9 Hasty -- rank: 446

... of him. Proverbs 29. 2. Irritable; easily excited to wrath; passionate. He that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. Proverbs 14 ... rapid, superficial. 3. Rash, precipitate, headlong, reckless, thoughtless, indiscreet. 4. Passionate, irritable, touchy, testy, pettish, waspish, petulant, peevish, fretful, fiery, choleric ... excitable, hot, peppery. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Precipitate, passionate. He is none of the Hastings sort; a saying of ... edge, on the spot, overeager, overenthusiastic, overhasty, oversoon, overzealous, passing, passionate, peppery, perfunctory, petulant, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, precocious, premature, previous, prompt ...

10 Flaming -- rank: 446

... 2. being on fire ; blazing < a flaming torch > 3. intense, passionate < flaming youth > 4. — used as an intensive < you flaming idiot ... emitting flames. 2 very hot (flaming June). 3 colloq. a passionate; intense (a flaming row). b expressing annoyance, or as an ... colored; brilliant; dazzling. ``In flaming yellow bright.'' --Prior. 3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or ... meteoric, obvious, on fire, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, passionate, pedantic, perfervid, pompous, port-wine, pretentious, puce, red, red-dyed ...

11 Stormy -- rank: 446

... or fury; as a stormy sound; stormy shocks. 3. Violent; passionate. [Unusual.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: (especially of ... or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks. 3. Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions. Stormy chiefs of a desert but ... a. 1. Tempestuous, windy, gusty, squally, boisterous, blustering. 2. Violent, passionate, rough, wild. 3. Furious, agitated, blustering. Moby Thesaurus Acheronian, Acherontic ... nebulous, nerve-racking, nimbose, nubilous, orgasmic, orgastic, overcast, overclouded, pandemoniac, passionate, raging, rainy, ravening, raving, rip-roaring, roaring, rough, simmering, somber ...

12 Violent -- rank: 446

... violent storm; came into violent collision). 2 a intense, vehement, passionate, furious (a violent contrast; violent dislike). b vivid (violent colours ... process of removing. Syn: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Violent Vi"o*lent ... turbulent, tumultuous, wild. 2. Fierce, fiery, fuming, raging, ungovernable, infuriate, passionate, high, hot. 3. Unnatural, effected by force. 4. Unjust, outrageous ... mean, mighty, monster, mordacious, mordant, mugger, nasty, orgasmic, orgiastic, outrageous, passionate, penetrating, physical, piercing, poignant, possessed, potent, powerful, rabid, raging, ramping ...

13 Fiery -- rank: 446

... Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous; as a fiery spirit. 4. Passionate; easily provoked; irritable. You know the fiery quality of the ... Shak. The fiery spirit of his forefathers. --W. Irwing. 3. Passionate; easily provoked; irritable. You know the fiery quality of the ... heated, fervid, fervent, glowing, flaming. 3. Ardent, impetuous, vehement, fierce, passionate, impassioned, fervent, fervid, glowing, flaming. Moby Thesaurus Titian, Titian-red ... red, loyal, luminous, lurid, madcap, maroon, mettlesome, on fire, overheated, passionate, peppery, perfervid, port-wine, precipitate, provoking, puce, pyretic, pyric, quick ...

14 Amorous -- rank: 446

... Amorous delight.'' --Milton. ``Amorous airs.'' --Waller. Syn: Loving; fond; tender; passionate; affectionate; devoted; ardent. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary If you describe ... ardent, full of desire, prone to sexuality. 2. Fond, enamoured, passionate, loving, longing, ardent, tender. 3. Amatory, erotic, tender, passionate, impassioned, Anacreontic. Moby Thesaurus amative, amatory, aphrodisiac, ardent, carnal, desirous ... heterosexual, impassioned, infatuated, lascivious, libidinal, loverlike, loverly, lustful, nuptial, oversexed, passionate, potent, procreative, sensual, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, straight, undersexed ...

15 Torrid -- rank: 446

... torrid sands > b. giving off intense heat ; scorching 2. ardent, passionate < torrid love letters > • torridity noun • torridly adverb • torridness noun Oxford ... by such weather. 2 (of language or actions) emotionally charged; passionate, intense. Phrases and idioms: torrid zone the central belt of ... She began a torrid love affair with a theatrical designer. = passionate ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. If someone or something has ... furnace, like an oven, lustful, muggy, overheated, overwarm, parched, parching, passionate, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorched, scorching, searing, seething ...