impassionate
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
动词 v.
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to affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of
— our Saviour Christ was one while deeply impassionated with Sorrow, another while very strongly carried away with Žeal and Anger
形容词 adj.
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Filled with passion; impassioned
— The Briton Prince was ſore empaſſionate, / And woxe inclined much vnto her part, [...]
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Lacking passion; dispassionate
— Various old ladies in the neighbourhood spoke of him as The Last of the Patriarchs. So grey, so slow, so quiet, so impassionate, so very bumpy in the head, Patriarch was the word for him.
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词源
词源 1
From Italian impassionato. By surface analysis, in- (“into”) + passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
词源 2
From the above adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Equivalent to in- (“into”) + passion + -ate.
词源 3
From im- (“not”) + passionate.
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