Precipitate vs Passionate - What's the difference?
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To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
* Glover
* Francis Bacon
To throw an object or person from a great height.
* Washington Irving
To send violently into a certain state or condition.
(chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
(chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
(meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
* Washington Irving
A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
(chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
* Prior
Very steep; precipitous.
With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
Moving with excessive speed or haste.
Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
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:
Precipitate is a related term of passionate.
As verbs the difference between precipitate and passionate
is that precipitate is to make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten while passionate is (obsolete) to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.As nouns the difference between precipitate and passionate
is that precipitate is a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action while passionate is a passionate individual.As adjectives the difference between precipitate and passionate
is that precipitate is headlong; falling steeply or vertically while passionate is given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.precipitate
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(precipitat)- to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
- Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
- If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous.
- She and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled region of the river.
- Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate .
- It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.
- The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* precipitated * precipitator * red precipitate * white precipitateEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)- Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
- The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
- a precipitate case of disease
Derived terms
* precipitately * precipitatenessExternal links
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* English heteronyms ----passionate
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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.