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impassioned
CIDE DICTIONARY
impassioned, p. p. & a.
Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned orator or discourse. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
impassioned
abandoned, ablaze, afire, agog, amative, amatory, amorous, animated, aquiver, ardent, aroused, atingle, atwitter, blazing, boiling over, breathless, burning, bursting, carried away, committed, cordial, dedicated, deep, delirious, desirous, devoted, devout, dithyrambic, drunk, eager, earnest, ebullient, effervescent, emotional, emphatic, enthusiastic, erotic, excited, exciting, exhilarated, exuberant, faithful, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, fired, flaming, flushed, furious, glowing, gushing, gushy, hearty, heated, high, hopped up, hot, hot-blooded, in earnest, inflamed, inspired, intense, intent, intent on, intoxicated, keen, keyed up, lascivious, lathered up, lively, loverlike, loverly, loyal, manic, maudlin, melodramatic, moved, mushy, on fire, overemotional, overheated, passionate, perfervid, profound, provoking, ready to burst, red-hot, resolute, romantic, roused, rousing, sentimental, serious, sexual, sincere, spirited, steamed up, steaming, steamy, stimulated, stimulating, stirred, stirred up, stirring, thrilled, tingling, tingly, torrid, turned-on, unrestrained, urgent, vehement, vigorous, violent, warm, whipped up, white-hot, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, zealousROGET THESAURUS
impassioned
Vigor
N vigor, power, force, boldness, raciness, intellectual, force, spirit, point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy, verve, glow, fire, warmth, strong language, gravity, sententiousness, elevation, loftiness, sublimity, eloquence, command of words, command of language, vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive, impressive, sensational, spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing, pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical, sententious, lofty, elevated, sublime, eloquent, vehement, petulant, impassioned, poetic, in glowing terms, in good set terms, in no measured terms, thoughts that breath and words that burn.Excitability
N excitability, impetuosity, vehemence, boisterousness, turbulence, impatience, intolerance, nonendurance, irritability, itching, wincing, disquiet, disquietude, restlessness, fidgets, fidgetiness, agitation, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry, fluster, flutter, pother, stew, ferment, whirl, buck fever, hurry-skurry, thrill, state of excitement, fever of excitement, transport, passion, excitement, flush, heat, fever, heat, fire, flame, fume, blood boiling, tumult, effervescence, ebullition, boiling over, whiff, gust, story, tempest, scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion, outbreak, outburst, agony, violence, fierceness, rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium, phrensy, frenzy, hysterics, intoxication, tearing passion, raging passion, anger, fascination, infatuation, fanaticism, Quixotism, Quixotry, tete montee, excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state, high-strung, irritable, impatient, intolerant, feverish, febrile, hysterical, delirious, mad, moody, maggoty- headed, unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy, chafing, startlish, mettlesome, high-mettled, skittish, vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap, overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical, rabid, rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary, boisterous, impulsive, impetuous, passionate, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile, excited, exciting, Int, pish!, pshaw!, noli me tangere, filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd, maggiore fretta minore atto.For further exploring for "impassioned" in Webster Dictionary Online