adjective
- filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate; ardent.
verb (used with object)
- to fill, or affect strongly, with intense feeling or passion; inflame; excite.
adjective
- filled with passion; fiery; inflamedan impassioned appeal
verb
- (tr) to arouse the passions of; inflame
c.1600, past participle adjective from impassion.
1590s, from Italian impassionare “to fill with passion,” from im- “in, into” (see im-) + passione “passion,” from Latin passionem (see passion). Related: Impassioned.