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Definition
showing or feeling intense emotion — typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love- I am her most ardent fan.
ardent = enthusiastic (feeling intense emotion)
- She is an ardent defender of free speech.
- I only want to be very sure that I know what your real preferences are," and he turned and searched her face with a pair of ardent eyes.Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
- Rosalie and Emmett kissed again—longer and more ardently than before.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband—a caring citizen—a worshipper of abstract and unifying God.Peter Shaffer -- Equus
- His research so horrified him that he became an ardent abolitionist for life.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- I was now, as I perceived, that good-looking and ardent boy whom I had seen making so eagerly for love's door.Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
- Blanca wept, throwing her arms around his neck, clasping him to her ardently, and covering his face with kisses.Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
- Or is there some ardent squire dreaming of your favors?George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.O. Henry -- The Gift of the Magi
- My explanation is that Marfa Petrovna was an ardent and impressionable woman and simply fell in love herself—literally fell in love—with your sister.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- She would have responded to the ardency of their beliefs.Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
- An afterglow deepened within his spirit, whence the white flame had passed, deepening to a rose and ardent light.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- CYRANO (ardently): Hideous!Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
- As Steve was being gentle and ardent, inside I was talking myself down the path again.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- Aglaya was kissing her mother's lips and cheeks and hands; they were hugging each other in the most ardent way.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- We advanced regardless of everything, drawn on by ardent curiosity.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- He put his own hand there, as if he could hardly realize such an outrage from one whom it had once been his wont to treat with ardent generosity.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- He wished ardently to grasp the chance, but in those days young men did nothing without their parents' consent.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- I want to say thank you but don't because I'm afraid of being ardent and scaring her off.Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
ardent = enthusiastic (feeling intense emotion)