Impassioned vs Resolute - What's the difference?
impassioned | resolute | Related terms |
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.
Firm, unyielding, determined.
* Shakespeare
* ’ (poem):
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(obsolete) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
Impassioned is a related term of resolute.
As adjectives the difference between impassioned and resolute
is that impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent while resolute is firm, unyielding, determined.impassioned
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Alternative forms
*empassionedAdjective
(en adjective)resolute
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Adjective
(en adjective)- She was resolute in her determination to resist his romantic advances.
- He was resolute in his decision to stay.
- Edward is at hand, / Ready to fight; therefore be resolute .
- If the Coward Bumble Bee / In his chimney corner stay, / I, must resoluter be!
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