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Passionate vs Resentful - What's the difference?

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Passionate is a related term of resentful.


As adjectives the difference between passionate and resentful

is that passionate is given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual while resentful is inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when.

As a noun passionate

is a passionate individual.

As a verb passionate

is (obsolete) to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.

passionate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
  • Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
  • * Prior
  • Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .
  • (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
  • * 1596 , , II. i. 544:
  • She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
  • * 1599 , , I. ii. 124:
  • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A passionate individual.
  • Verb

    (passionat)
  • (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
  • Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
  • (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
  • * 1607 , , III. ii. 6:
  • Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.

    resentful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when .
  • Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.
  • Synonyms

    * (Inclined to resent) unforgiving, spiteful * (Full of resentment) bitter

    Derived terms

    * resentfully * resentfulness

    References

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