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

Many community leaders from Little Saigon spoke passionately in Vietnamese. —Claire Wang, Oc Register, 10 June 2026

In this very funny parody of portentous British novels about nature, a pragmatic young woman goes to live on the family farm with her cousins, the passionately miserable Starkadders, and decides to reform them. —Namara Smith, New Yorker, 10 June 2026

Lovers of rom-coms will argue fiercely and passionately about their favorite. —Ruchira Sharma, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026

Jon and his brilliant team believe passionately in the importance of simply making people laugh. —Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for passionately

• compassionately
• dispassionately