Word Meanings - AFFECTUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of passion or emotion; earnest. -- Af*fec"tu*ous*ly, adv. Fabyan.

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• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• EARNESTLY
  In an earnest manner.
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• EMOTIONALIZE
  To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.
• EMOTIONALISM
  The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
• EMOTIONED
  Affected with emotion. "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott.
• EARNEST
  Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. Sir P. Sidney. And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak. In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.
• PASSIONATE
  1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
• PASSIONARY
  A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.
• EARNESTNESS
  The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving.
• PASSIONTIDE
  The last fortnight of Lent.
• EMOTION
  A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions
• EARNESTFUL
  Serious. Chaucer.
• PASSIONATELY
  1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately. South. 2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke.
• PASSIONATENESS
  The state or quality of being passionate.
• PASSION
  1. A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress ; specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. "The passions of this time." Wyclif
• EMOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.
• PASSIONIST
  A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• OVEREARNEST
  Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness, n.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
• IMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. Smart.
• EMPASSION
  To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.
• IMPASSION
  To move or affect strongly with passion. Chapman.
• DISPASSIONED
  Free from passion; dispassionate. "Dispassioned men." Donne.
• PREMOTION
  Previous motion or excitement to action.
• EMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.
• UNPASSIONATE
  Not passionate; dispassionate. -- Un*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv.
• COMPASSIONATE
  1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South. 2. Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. Shak. Syn. -- Sympathizing; tender;
• COMPASSION
  Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay. Syn. -- Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling;