passionately

adverb

pas·​sion·​ate·​ly ˈpa-sh(ə-)nət-lē 

: in a passionate manner:

a

: with great feeling and emotional intensity

Walt never ceased to be passionately loyal to his home town …

—Jonathan Franzen

Clyburn has argued passionately for lowering the prices of prison phone calls and extending broadband access to the poor.

—Brian Fung

He is filled with the rhetoric of dissent. He is passionately against war and passionately for peace.

—Leon Wieseltier

b

: with strong sexual and often romantic feeling

kissed passionately

They fell passionately in love.

Examples of passionately in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Some will passionately argue about about cats versus dogs, and which is the superior companion, but Vasilevskiy says his teammates never rib him for being a cat guy inside a dressing room full of dog people. —Jesse Granger, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026

The Inter Miami captain was serenaded by Colombian fans who chanted his name throughout despite passionately rooting for the home side. —Gianfranco Panizo, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2026

San Francisco hasn’t elected a Republican supervisor or mayor for half a century, but its liberal orthodoxies are represented by passionately disparate factions. —Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026

Vance, a Republican, has spent years passionately advocating for Americans to have more children. —Arkansas Online, 24 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for passionately

• compassionately
• dispassionately