Passionate vs Enterprising - What's the difference?
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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:
Displaying bravery and daring in the attempt of some task.
Being very able and ingenious in business dealings.
As adjectives the difference between passionate and enterprising
is that passionate is given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual while enterprising is displaying bravery and daring in the attempt of some task.As a noun passionate
is a passionate individual.As a verb passionate
is to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.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.