Malice vs Passionate - What's the difference?
malice | passionate |
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
* 1981 , , Valis , ISBN 0-553-20594-3, page 67:
Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
* Prior
(obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
* 1596 , , II. i. 544:
* 1599 , , I. ii. 124:
(obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
(obsolete) To express with great emotion.
* 1607 , , III. ii. 6:
As nouns the difference between malice and passionate
is that malice is intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune while passionate is a passionate individual.As an adjective passionate is
given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.As a verb passionate is
(obsolete) to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.malice
English
Noun
(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
Synonyms
* ill will * wickedness * evilnessDerived terms
* maliciousExternal links
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* ----passionate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .
- She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
- Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
Synonyms
* (fired with intense feeling) ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid.Verb
(passionat)- Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
- Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.