See Also: passionate(2)(dictionary)
passionate(1)(dictionary)
passionate(dictionary)
Passionate strawberry crush(recipes)
Exercise price or strike price of an option(finance)
Flat price (also clean price)(money)
Flat price (clean price)(finance)
Retail price index (RPI) or consumer price index (CPI)(finance)
price(encyclopedia)
asking price(dictionary)

passionate(2) (iou) and price(2) (iou)


passionate(2) (iou)



passionate adjective & noun. LME.
[medieval Latin passionatus, from Latin passio(n-): see PASSION noun, -ATE2.]
A. adjective.
Of a person: affected with or easily moved to passion or strong emotion, spec. intense sexual love or desire. LME.
S. Austin Her husband's house and Garden were daily thronged with her passionate admirers. D. Macdonald He's about as passionate as a bowl of oatmeal. Willy Russell They're young, and they're passionate about things that matter.
b. Of an emotion: intense. M16.
T. Fuller He made a passionate speech, to exhort them to unite. J. F. Lehmann Glimpses of passionate devotion to his Art.
c. Of an action, speech, etc.: marked by such emotion; expressive of such emotion. L16.
Easily moved to anger or rage; hot-tempered, irascible. LME.
W. Cowper A temper passionate and fierce May suddenly your joys disperse.
b. Of a person: angry, enraged. L15-E19.
c. Of an action, speech, etc.: marked by anger. L16.
J. McCarthy The debates were long, fierce and often passionate.
a. Affected with sorrow; sad. L16-M17.
b. Inclined to pity, compassionate. obsolete exc. dial. L16.
Infatuated, in love. M17-E18.
b. ellipt. as noun. A person affected with passion or strong emotion, formerly spec. love. arch. M17.
passionately adverb L16.
passionateness noun M17.

price(2) (iou)



price verb trans. Also (earlier) prise. LME.
[Var. of PRIZE verb1, assim. to PRICE noun & adjective Cf. PRAISE verb.]
Set or state the price of (a thing for sale); esp. attach a price-tag or ticket to. LME.
price out charge a prohibitive price to (a potential customer); price out of the market, eliminate (oneself or another) from commercial competition through charging prohibitive prices, charge a prohibitive price for (goods etc.) or to (a potential customer). price up increase the price of.
HomeFlair Finished in tough melamine..it is priced at 279.
b. fig. Value relatively, estimate. L19.
George Eliot The girls' doings are..priced low.
= PRIZE verb1 2. LME-M17.
Pay for by some sacrifice etc. Only in 16.
Inquire the price of. M19.
R. Kipling Colonel Creighton, pricing Tibetan ghost-daggers at Lurgan's shop.
priceable adjective (US) able to be priced, having a calculable value M20.
pricer noun a person who prices goods etc. LME.
pricing noun the action or process of establishing a price or prices; the overall level of prices so fixed; predatory pricing: see PREDATORY adjective: M19.