passionate

Definitions

(Adjective) feeling strongly about things; lustful

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(Verb) overenthusiastic

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(Adjective) The antonym of apathetic

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1. Marked or swayed by strong sexual desire.
SYNONYMS, QUASI-SYNONYMS AND RELATED TERMS: ache for; all hot and bothered; all steamed up; all worked up; amorous; antsy; ardent; aroused; blazing; burning; climactically excited; concupiscent; covetousness; crave for; cream for; desire strongly; desirous; dripping for it; eager; erotic; estrous; excited; fervent; fervid; fiery; fired-up; flaming; flash groove; flash in the pants; fuckish; full of beans; full of fuck; full of gism; geared(-up); goatish; hanker(ing); hard (up); have (a) fever; have a hard-on for someone; have a lech; have the hots; have the hots for someone; have the urge to merge; heated; horny; hot; hot and bothered; hot as a three-dollar pistol; hot as a firecracker; hot-assed; hot-blooded; hot in the ass; hot in the biscuit; hot in the tail; hot to trot; humpy; hunger for; hunky; impassioned; impetuous; in a sweat; in heat; in season; inflamed; inspired; itching; itchy; jacked up; juicy; lascivious; letch after; letching for; lewd; libidinous; long for; lubricious; lust after; lust for; lustful; lusty; moved by passion; pashy; pashful; passional; passionate; perfervid; pine (for); prurient; quickened; rammy; randy; red-hot; rooty; rousing; rutting; ruttish; rutty; salacious; sensual (craving); sexotic; sexual desire; sexy; sizzling; steamed (up); steamy; stimulated; stirring; strong desire; sultry; sweet tooth; thirsty; torrid; turned on; urge; warm; wet; wet and willing; white-hot; wild (about); wired(-up); wistful; worked up; yearning; yen; yenny; zealous.
SEE ALSO: blue balls; cream one's pants (or jeans); hot nuts; hot rocks; love nuts.

2. Having, capable of, affected by, or dominated by powerful emotions. This term implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful diffusion of emotion.

3. Easily aroused to anger.

4. Enthusiastic, ardent. Adverb: passionately.