The DICT Development Group

  Impassioned \Im*pas"sioned\, p. p. & a.
     Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth
     of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned
     orator or discourse.
     [1913 Webster]

  impassioned
      adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an
             ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a
             fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned
             appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent,
             fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid,
             torrid]

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "impassioned":
     abandoned, ablaze, afire, agog, amative, amatory, amorous,
     animated, aquiver, ardent, aroused, atingle, atwitter, blazing,
     boiling over, breathless, burning, bursting, carried away,
     committed, cordial, dedicated, deep, delirious, desirous, devoted,
     devout, dithyrambic, drunk, eager, earnest, ebullient,
     effervescent, emotional, emphatic, enthusiastic, erotic, excited,
     exciting, exhilarated, exuberant, faithful, febrile, fervent,
     fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, fired, flaming, flushed,
     furious, glowing, gushing, gushy, hearty, heated, high, hopped up,
     hot, hot-blooded, in earnest, inflamed, inspired, intense, intent,
     intent on, intoxicated, keen, keyed up, lascivious, lathered up,
     lively, loverlike, loverly, loyal, manic, maudlin, melodramatic,
     moved, mushy, on fire, overemotional, overheated, passionate,
     perfervid, profound, provoking, ready to burst, red-hot, resolute,
     romantic, roused, rousing, sentimental, serious, sexual, sincere,
     spirited, steamed up, steaming, steamy, stimulated, stimulating,
     stirred, stirred up, stirring, thrilled, tingling, tingly, torrid,
     turned-on, unrestrained, urgent, vehement, vigorous, violent, warm,
     whipped up, white-hot, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, zealous