different between impassioned vs impassionate

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.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• empassionate (obsolete)

Etymology

From im- +? passionate.

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /?m?pæ??n?t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /?m?pæ??ne?t/

Adjective

impassionate (comparative more impassionate, superlative most impassionate)

1. filled with passion; impassioned

   Synonyms: impassioned, passionate

   • 1900, George P. Hott, Christ, the Teacher, U. B. Publishing House, page 81:

     Young ministers, deeply impressed and longing to pour out the burning, impassionate zeal of their own souls, are apt to abuse the use of this figure.
2. Lacking passion; dispassionate

   Synonym: dispassionate

Translations

Verb

impassionate (third-person singular simple present impassionates, present participle impassionating, simple past and past participle impassionated)

1. (transitive) to affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of
   • 1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala

     our Saviour Christ was one while deeply impassionated with Sorrow, another while very strongly carried away with Žeal and Anger