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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

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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