Usually means: Intense, enthusiastic devotion to something.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word passionate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. passionate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. passionate: Merriam-Webster
  3. passionate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. passionate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. passionate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. passionate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Passionate, passionate: Wordnik
  8. passionate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. passionate: Wiktionary
  10. passionate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. passionate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. passionate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Passionate, passionate: Dictionary.com
  14. passionate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. passionate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Passionate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. passionate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. passionate: Rhymezone
  19. Passionate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. passionate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. passionate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. passionate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. passionate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passionate: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passionate: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
▸ adjective:  Fired with intense feeling.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
▸ noun:  A passionate individual.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To express with great emotion.

Similar:
fanatical, impassioned, fervent, perfervid, ardent, lusty, overzealous, choleric, wild, lustful, more...

Opposite:
apathetic, indifferent, unenthusiastic, dispassionate, detached

Types:
love, hate, anger, fear, joy, sadness, envy, more...

Phrases:
passionate friendship, passionate friendships, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Passionate Love, A Passionate Woman, more...

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Similar:
fanatical, impassioned, fervent, perfervid, ardent, lusty, overzealous, choleric, wild, lustful, more...

Opposite:
apathetic, indifferent, unenthusiastic, dispassionate, detached

Types:
love, hate, anger, fear, joy, sadness, envy, more...

Phrases:
passionate friendship, passionate friendships, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Passionate Love, A Passionate Woman, passionate about, passionate kiss, passionate person, opposite of passionate, more...

Colors:
    red,     crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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