Adjective

(en adjective)

In a romantic or sexual relationship.

As far as I know, he isn't attached , so I'm going to invite him out on a date.

I'm not ready to get attached , as I want to continue sleeping around.

(botany, mycology) Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.

In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.

Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Full of ardor; fervent, passionate.

* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 43

This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.

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, year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=4 citation , passage=I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.}}

Burning; glowing; shining.