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passionate

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of passionate

1 having a strong sexual desire

  • a passionate couple plunging into a new relationship
Synonyms of passionate

concupiscent, goatish, horny, hot, hypersexual, itchy, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lubricious (or lubricous), lustful, oversexed, randy, salacious, satyric, wanton
Words Related to passionate

aroused, excited

easy, fast, loose, promiscuous

dissipated, dissolute, libertine

corrupt, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, immoral, indecent
Near Antonyms of passionate

celibate, chaste, decent, immaculate, modest, moral, pure, virtuous

monastic, monkish

maidenly, virginal

innocent, lily-white

priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian
Antonyms of passionate

frigid, undersexed

2 having or expressing great depth of feeling

  • a passionate defense of the controversial play
Synonyms of passionate

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

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 passionate

on fire
Near Antonyms of passionate

detached, dry, impersonal, objective

reserved, undemonstrative
Antonyms of passionate

cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional

Synonym Discussion of passionate

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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