If something is impassioned it's filled with or demonstrating intense emotion. Anything can be impassioned — speech, a play, a conversation, a novel, or even you. ... Whatever the emotional feeling behind impassioned, it's still a word that suggests profound feeling and sincerity on behalf of the user.
What does it mean to feel impassioned?
impassioned, passionate, ardent, fervent, fervid, perfervid mean showing intense feeling. impassioned implies warmth and intensity without violence and suggests fluent verbal expression. an impassioned plea for justice passionate implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful diffusion of emotion.
How do you use the word impassioned?
Impassioned in a Sentence ?
- The widow's impassioned speech brought the members of congress to their feet.
- At the trial's end, the defense attorney made an impassioned plea for mercy for his client.
- The woman's impassioned letter persuaded the president to pardon her dying husband.
