Impassioned
Filled with or showing great emotion. Adjectives like heartfelt and wholehearted are used with the best intentions: a heartfelt apology, wholehearted condolences. Perhaps we think that because they contain the word heart, they add that much more emotion to what we’re trying to say. But they are used so often that there’s not much figurative heart left in them. Impassioned appears less often in everyday speech, but it carries more intensity. A heartfelt speech may make you cry; an impassioned speech stirs your soul and inspires you to act. If you start using the word more frequently, you may just find yourself becoming more impassioned, too.
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Source: RD.com
