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impassioned

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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tempestuous

English

Etymology

From Middle English tempestuous, tempestious, variants of tempestous, from Old French tempesteus, tempestos, tempestuose, from Latin tempestu?sus, equivalent to tempest +? -uous.

Adjective

tempestuous (comparative more tempestuous, superlative most tempestuous)

  1. Of, or resembling a tempest; stormy, tumultuous.

Synonyms

  • (stormy): stormy, windy, blustery, tumultuous

Derived terms

  • tempestuously
  • tempestuousness

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