Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - passionate

1. A passionate person has very strong feelings about something or a strong belief in something. ...his passionate commitment to peace... I’m a passionate believer in public art... He is very passionate about the project. ADJ • passionately I am passionately opposed to the death penalty. ADV 2. A passionate person has strong romantic or sexual feelings and expresses them in their behaviour. ...a beautiful, passionate woman of twenty-six. ADJ • passionately He was passionately in love with her... ADV