impassioned

English

Alternative forms

empassioned [16th-18th c.]

Etymology

From impassion +‎ -ed.

Adjective

impassioned (comparative more impassioned, superlative most impassioned)

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

fervent

Bulgarian: страстен (bg) (strasten), пламенен (bg) (plamenen)
German: leidenschaftlich (de), erregt (de)

Italian: appassionato (it) m

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