ardent

adj.

1. Expressing or characterized by warmth of feeling; passionate: an ardent lover.
2. Displaying or characterized by strong enthusiasm or devotion; fervent: "an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art" (Walter Pater).
3. 1. Burning; fiery.
   2. Glowing; shining: ardent eyes.

[Middle English ardaunt, from Old French ardant, from Latin ārdēns, ārdent-, present participle of ārdēre, to burn.]

ardency ar'den·cy (-dn-sē) n.
ardently ar'dent·ly adv.

(Ardent Software, Inc., Westboro, MA) A database vendor formed in 1998 as the merger of VMARK Software, Unidata and O2 Technology. Its products included the UniVerse and UniData databases and DataStage data warehouse utility. In 2000, Ardent was acquired by Informix, which later sold its database business to IBM and renamed itself Ascential Software Corporation, concentrating on asset management. See UniVerse, UniData, DataStage and VMARK.

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adjective

1. Fired with intense feeling: blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid. See feelings.
2. Showing or having enthusiasm: enthusiastic, fervent, keen, mad, rabid, warm, zealous. Informal crazy. Slang gung ho, nuts. See concern/unconcern.
3. Intensely desirous or interested: agog, athirst, avid, bursting, eager, impatient, keen, solicitous, thirsting, thirsty. Informal raring. Idioms: champing at the bit, ready and willing. See concern/unconcern.
4. Marked by much heat: baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, fiery, heated, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid. See hot/cold/lukewarm.

adj

Definition: loyal
Antonyms: disloyal

adj

Definition: very enthusiastic
Antonyms: cold, cold-blooded, cool, dispassionate, frigid, indifferent, lukewarm, unenthusiastic

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IN BRIEF: Passionate; enthusiastic.

His ardent efforts were rewarded.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - glødende, brændende, flammende

Nederlands (Dutch)
vurig, fervent

Français (French)
adj. - ardent, passionné, fervent

Deutsch (German)
adj. - stürmisch, feurig, inbrünstig, leidenschaftlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - φλογερός, περιπαθής, σφοδρός, ζωηρός

Italiano (Italian)
ardente

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - ardente, intenso, zeloso

Русский (Russian)
горячий, страстный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - ardiente, ferviente, llameante

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - ivrig, nitisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
热心的, 激烈的, 燃烧般的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 熱心的, 激烈的, 燃燒般的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 열렬한, 지나친

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 熱心な, 熱烈な, 燃えている, 情熱的な, 激しい
n. - 強い酒

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) غيور, متحمس, متوهج‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נלהב, מלא התלהבות‬

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