different between avid vs impassioned

English

Etymology

From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from ave? (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æv?d/, /æv?d/

Adjective

avid (comparative more avid or (less commonly) avider, superlative most avid or (less commonly) avidest)

1. enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something

Derived terms

• avidly
• avidity
• avidness

Translations

Anagrams

• AIVD, Adiv, Vida, diva

Romanian

Etymology

From French avide, Latin avidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a.vid]

Adjective

avid m or n (feminine singular avid?, masculine plural avizi, feminine and neuter plural avide)

1. avid, eager, desirous
2. greedy, grasping

Declension

Related terms

• aviditate

English

Alternative forms

• empassioned [16th-18th c.]

Etymology

From impassion +? -ed.

Adjective

impassioned (comparative more impassioned, superlative most impassioned)

1. Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.9:

     She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […]

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, VI:

     The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.

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