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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | passionate |
| Synonyms: | amorous, ardent, aroused, blazing, burning, concupiscent, desirous, dithyrambic, erotic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, heavy*, hot*, impassioned, lascivious, libidinous, loving, lustful, perfervid, prurient, red-hot, romantic, scorchin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emotional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demonstrative about feelings |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, disturbed, ecstatic, emotive, enthusiastic, excitable, exciting, falling apart, fanatical, feeling, fervent, fervid, fickle, fiery, heartwarming, heated, histrionic, hot-blooded, hysterical, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, irrational, moving, nervous, overwrought, passionate, pathetic, poignant, responsive, roused, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, spontaneous, stirred, stirring, susceptible, tear-jerking, temperamental, tender, thrilling, touching, warm, zealous |
| Notes: | emotional means 'affected by an emotion' while emotive means 'drawing out or evoking emotion' |
| Antonyms: | physical |
| Main Entry: | feisty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spirited; touchy |
| Synonyms: | active, alive, bubbly, courageous, difficult, enthusiastic, excitable, fiery, frisky, full of pep, game, gritty, gutsy, gutty, high-strung, hot-blooded, lively, mettlesome, ornery, peppy, quarrelsome, scrappy, sensitive, spunky, thin-skinned, tough, truculent, zestful |
| Main Entry: | fervent/fervid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic, excited |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, dying to, eager, earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, falling all over oneself, fiery, glowing, go great guns, heartfelt, hearty, hot*, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passionate, perfervid, pious, religious, responsive, serious, sincere, unfeigned, vehement, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous |
| Antonyms: | cool, discouraged, dispirited, impassive, uncaring, unenthusiastic, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fiery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | passionate; on fire |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, afire, aflame, agitable, alight, blazing, burning, choleric, combustible, conflagrant, enthusiastic, excitable, febrile, fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushed, glowing, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hot-tempered, igneous, ignited, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, in flames, inflamed, intense, irascible, irritable, madcap, peppery, perfervid, precipitate, red-hot, spirited, unrestrained, vehement, violent |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, dull, flat, impassive, subdued |
| Main Entry: | flaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry, vehement |
| Synonyms: | ardent, aroused, blazing, bright, burning, fervent, frenzied, hot, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passionate, raging, red-hot, scintillating, vivid, white-hot |
| Antonyms: | gleeful, happy, joyful, pleased |
| Main Entry: | glowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy, enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | adulatory, ardent, avid, blazing, burning, complimentary, desirous, eager, ecstatic, eulogistic, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, keen, laudatory, panegyrical, passionate, rave, rhapsodic, zealous |
| Antonyms: | dull, unenthusiastic, unhappy, unsmiling |
| Main Entry: | impassioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited, vehement |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, fired up, flaming, furious, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, inflamed, inspired, intense, melodramatic, moving, mushy, overemotional, passionate, perfervid, powerful, profound, red-hot, romantic, rousing, sentimental, starry-eyed, steamed up, stirring, torrid, violent, vivid, warm, white-hot, wild about, worked up, zealous |
| Notes: | impassioned means characterized by intense emotion or full of passion, while impassive means having or revealing little emotion |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, calm, cool, impassive, indifferent, unconcerned, unexcited |
| Main Entry: | torrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensuous |
| Synonyms: | ardent, blazing, burning, erotic, fervent, flaming, hot*, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passionate, red-hot, sexy, steamy, sultry, white-hot |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, frigid, unsensual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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