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

Devoted fanbases passionately support club and national soccer teams, just like big-time college football programs. — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026

Tate and the rest of the artists here can teach us to listen, to slow down, to look with our whole hearts out and to create in the same way, fully and passionately. — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

Fans have passionately defended Hardy on social media, and even declared that the series might as well end if Hardy isn't involved, considering how his simmering performance was the standout element of season 1. — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026

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

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for passionately

• compassionately
• dispassionately