different between fluent vs impassioned

English

Etymology

Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of flu? (“I flow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?flu??nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?flu?nt/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?flju??nt/
• Rhymes: -??nt

Adjective

fluent (comparative more fluent, superlative most fluent)

1. That flows; flowing, liquid.
2. (linguistics) Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.

Usage notes

In casual use, “fluency” refers to language proficiency broadly, while in narrow use it refers to using a language flowingly, rather than haltingly.

Synonyms

• (that flows): fluent; see also Thesaurus:flowing or Thesaurus:runny

Related terms

• fluency
• fluently

Translations

Noun

fluent (plural fluents)

1. (mathematics, obsolete) A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.

References

Anagrams

• netful, unfelt

Latin

Verb

fluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of flu?

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluens.

Adjective

fluent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fluent or fluente)

1. (of a liquid) flowing; that flows

Related terms

• fluer

Romanian

Etymology

From French fluent

Adjective

fluent m or n (feminine singular fluent?, masculine plural fluen?i, feminine and neuter plural fluente)

1. fluent

Declension

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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