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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

filled with great emotion or passion for a particular subject; showing intensity of feeling when expressing one's thoughts on a subject;

e.g. Her impassioned speech convinced the administrators to reconsider their decision.

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Similar Words

Ardent

Blazing

Burning

Charged

Competitive

Demonstrative

Emotional

Excited

Fatherly

Fervent

Fervid

Feverish

Fiery

Flaming

Forgiving

High-flying

Hot-blooded

Incandescent

Intense

Knee-deep

Lovesick

Motivated

Opportunistic

Passionate

Perfervid

Red-hot

Religious

Superheated

Torrid

Vehement

Warm

Warm-blooded

Zealous

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Opposite Words

Apathetic

Cold

Cool

Detached

Disloyal

Dispassionate

Dry

Emotionless

Faithless

False

Fickle

Half-hearted

Impassive

Impersonal

Inconstant

Lukewarm

Objective

Perfidious

Phlegmatic

Recreant

Reserved

Stolid

Stone-faced

Subdued

Tepid

Traitorous

Treacherous

Uncaring

Undemonstrative

Uneager

Unemotional

Unenthusiastic

Unfaithful

Uninvolved

Unloving

Unmoved

Unresponsive

Untrue

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Related Words

Affectionate

Aggravated

Ambitious

Animated

Annoyed

Aspiring

Boisterous

Bothered

Constant

Dedicated

Devoted

Devout

Down-the-line

Drove

Enamored

Exasperated

Faithful

Fast

Fermented

Fiery

Fond

Frenzied

Good

Gushy

Hard-driving

Hearty

High-spirited

Histrionic

Infatuated

Inspired

Irritated

Keen

Loving

Loyal

Maudlin

Mawkish

Mettlesome

Motivated

Mushy

Nationalist

Obsessed

Overexcited

Overheated

Peppery

Pious

Pushing

Queer

Raised

Rambunctious

Saccharine

Sappy

Self-seeking

Sentimental

Sloppy

Spirited

Spunky

Stanch

Staunch

Steadfast

Steady

Sugary

Tenderhearted

The

True

True-blue

Uninhibited

Unreserved

Unrestrained

Upset

Vexed

Wholehearted

Zealous

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