impassioned
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Synonyms & Antonyms for impassioned
Synonyms
ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded
Antonyms
cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional
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At the lunch, Becky Rom, the national campaign chair of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, made an impassioned plea to nix any plans to mine. — Alex Kotlowitz, The New Yorker, "Finding Stillness in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters in the Age of Trump," 17 July 2019 Finally, Gem CEO Micah Winkelspecht—a long time blockchain builder—made an impassioned plea to treat the right to tinker with new financial technologies as a human right. — Robert Hackett, Fortune, "Disrupting the Dollar, Gold vs Bitcoin, Marvelous Montauk —The Ledger," 24 June 2019 Known for his durability and pain tolerance, Thompson made an impassioned plea to play with the balky hamstring. — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, "Warriors’ Klay Thompson ready, eager to return to action in Game 4," 6 June 2019 The company’s terse tweeted responses to impassioned pleas from its creators have left everyone mystified about what, if anything, the company stands for, aside from minimizing bad press. — Casey Newton, The Verge, "Three ways YouTube could fight harassment," 6 June 2019 Wasser upset the decorum with an impassioned plea to consider elephants as fellow beings, not commodities. — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, "Sam Wasser pours his intense passion for protecting wildlife into research and catching poachers," 21 May 2019 Earlier, O'Rourke delivered an impassioned speech to members of the El Paso community that gathered for a vigil in honor of the victims of Saturday's shooting. — Emily Tillett, CBS News, "Beto O'Rourke rips President Trump in expletive-filled rant after El Paso shooting," 5 Aug. 2019 The hashtag #MoscowMitchMcTreason is trending one day after the Kentucky Republican gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor in response to accusations of being a Russian sympathizer. — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, "#MoscowMitchMcTreason trends one day after Mitch McConnell lashes out at 'McCarthyism'," 30 July 2019 Despite three postponements and countless impassioned speeches, only 99 of the assembly’s 225 members supported the chief minister, H.D. Kumaraswamy. — The Economist, "India’s ruling party keeps on winning seats, even after the elections," 25 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'impassioned.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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