passional
noun, adjective
passional is a noun meaning “a book describing sufferings of martyrs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-S-S-I-O-N-A-L, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of passional is passionals.
What does passional mean?
noun
- 1
a book describing sufferings of martyrs
adjective
- 1
characterized by passion
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of passional
- passionals plural
- more passional comparative
- most passional superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is passional?
Passional appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Passional in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense adjective:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does passional come from?
From Middle English passional, from Late Latin passiōnālis; equivalent to passion + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).