Synonyms:
ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid
Meaning: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
Usage examples
Everley launched into an impassioned speech.
Its impassioned episodes seem to have been afterward inserted.
And how difficult it seems to be to write of Chopin except in terms of impassioned prose!
Her lover was equally impassioned, but his passion was mingled with feelings of a coarser nature.
"I was going to say, impassioned: but perhaps you would have misunderstood the word, and been displeased.
And my wild heart answered: 'There has been an impassioned stampede, northward and westward, of all the tribes of Man.
Four hundred and twenty pounds had been raised up to tea-time, and it was the impassioned desire of everyone to achieve five hundred.
As his poetical faculty became more developed, his profoundly original genius became more marked, and his inspiration more earnest and impassioned.
It happened that Beth, whose room was near this rear corridor, had just gone there to dress for dinner, and as she was closing her door she heard a wild, impassioned cry:
His root, what he had of a root, was all in Christian's companionship and impassioned appeals, and then in those impressive passages of Scripture that Christian read to him.