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impassioned

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of impassioned

having or expressing great depth of feeling

an impassioned plea for justice

Synonyms of impassioned

ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded

Words Related to impassioned

gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugary

histrionic, melodramatic

enthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealous

enamored, infatuated, obsessed

uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained

frenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated

Phrases Synonymous with impassioned

Near Antonyms of impassioned

detached, dry, impersonal, objective

reserved, undemonstrative

Antonyms of impassioned

cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional

Synonym Discussion of impassioned

impassioned, passionate, ardent, fervent, fervid, perfervid mean showing intense feeling. impassioned implies warmth and intensity without violence 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 enthusiasm.

- an ardent supporter of human rights

fervent stresses sincerity and steadiness of emotional warmth or zeal.

- fervent good wishes

fervid suggests warmly and spontaneously and often feverishly expressed emotion.

- fervid love letters

perfervid implies the expression of exaggerated or overwrought feelings.

- perfervid expressions of patriotism

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