Impassioned vs Perfervid - What's the difference?
impassioned | perfervid |
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.
Extremely, excessively, or feverishly passionate; zealous.
*1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 177:
*:In this case he saw himself sitting beside the breathing slender figure of Pia like someone in an old engraving – a beastly old Rembrandt exhaling the perfervid gloom of Protestantism and a diet of turnips.
*1989 , (Nick Cave), :
*2002 , Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, p. 6:
*:A clown, Grantley Dixon, a perfervid parrot, with his militant slogans and second-hand attitudes: like all coffee-house radicals a screaming snob at heart.
Perfervid is a synonym of impassioned.
As adjectives the difference between impassioned and perfervid
is that impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent while perfervid is extremely, excessively, or feverishly passionate; zealous.impassioned
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Alternative forms
*empassionedAdjective
(en adjective)perfervid
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Ah threw mahself down the porch steps and fell to mah knees in the middle of the yard, wringing mah hands and beating at the sky and wailing and reeling in the red dust and petitioning the almighty with perfervid prayer.