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Impassioned vs Irate - What's the difference?

impassioned | irate | Related terms |

Impassioned is a related term of irate.


As adjectives the difference between impassioned and irate

is that impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent while irate is extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

impassioned

English

Alternative forms

*empassioned

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.9:
  • *:She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […].
  • *1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , VI:
  • *:The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.

    • irate

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

    • Synonyms

    * furious * infuriated * sore * See also

    Related terms

    * irascible * irately * irateness * ire

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