impassioned

[im-pash-uhnd]

adjective

1. filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate; ardent.

   Synonyms: fiery, fervent, vehement, emotional
   Antonyms: apathetic

impassioned

/ ɪmˈpæʃənd /

adjective

1. filled with passion; fiery; inflamed

   an impassioned appeal

Other Word Forms

• impassionedly adverb
• impassionedness noun
• unimpassioned adjective
• unimpassionedly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of impassioned¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; impassion + -ed ²

Example Sentences

These eyewitness accounts would feed into Baldwin’s impassioned essays on race such as “Down at the Cross” and his 1972 nonfiction book “No Name in the Street.”

From Los Angeles Times

Madonna - who last month released her long-rumoured remix album Veronica Electronica - has made impassioned speeches on stage about Gaza since the war began.

From BBC

I ask Orla, who made an impassioned speech at a recent protest, why she is so aggrieved by the asylum hotel.

From BBC

Requiring those who had the least to pay the most was a glaring economic injustice that would inspire progressive reformers to fight tariffs with an impassioned intensity that seems almost incomprehensible today.

From Salon

August 29 marks 20 years since Katrina ripped through the City That Care Forgot, and the intervening decades have yielded impassioned examinations of what went wrong.

From Salon

Related Words

• ardent 
• fervent 
• fierce 
• fiery 
• heated 
• intense 
• passionate 
• rousing 
• sentimental 
• stirring