passionate (v.)
passionate (adj.)
- abandoned
- ablaze
- afire
- amative
- amatory
- amorous
- animated
- ardent
- argumentative
- aroused
- atrabilious
- avid
- belligerent
- bilious
- blazing
- breathless
- burning
- cathectic
- choleric
- combustible
- committed
- concerned
- concupiscent
- contentious
- cordial
- cranky
- cross
- curious
- dedicated
- delirious
- desirous
- devoted
- devout
- drunk
- eager
- earnest
- emotional
- emphatic
- energetic
- enthusiastic
- erotic
- excited
- exciting
- explosive
- exuberant
- faithful
- fanatic
- fanatical
- fascinated
- febrile
- fervent
- fervid
- fevered
- feverish
- fierce
- fiery
- flaming
- flushed
- furious
- glowing
- hard-core
- hasty
- headlong
- hearty
- heated
- hectic
- high-powered
- horny
- hot
- hot-blooded
- hot-tempered
- hotheaded
- huffish
- huffy
- impassioned
- impetuous
- inflamed
- intense
- intent
- interested
- intoxicated
- invigorated
- irascible
- irritable
- itching
- keen
- lascivious
- lecherous
- libidinous
- lively
- loverlike
- loverly
- loyal
- lustful
- madcap
- peevish
- peppery
- perfervid
- precipitate
- provoking
- prurient
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- quick
- quick-tempered
- randy
- ratty
- red-hot
- resolute
- salacious
- satyric
- scorching
- seething
- sensual
- serious
- sex-starved
- sexual
- sexy
- short-tempered
- sincere
- snappish
- spirited
- spunky
- steaming
- steamy
- stimulated
- stimulating
- stirring
- stormy
- sultry
- temperamental
- tempestuous
- testy
- tetchy
- titillated
- touchy
- unrestrained
- unsatisfied
- urgent
- vehement
- vigorous
- violent
- volatile
- volcanic
- warm
- white-hot
- wild
- zealous
- zestful
One in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith become
A passionate intuition.
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato. . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
