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 feelings of sexual desire

They fell passionately in love.

Examples of passionately in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Speaking alongside Davie, new BBC Chair and board overseer Samir Shah spoke passionately about the reputational damage done to the BBC by Edwards, who will be sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children. —Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024

Wildflower represents all of us passionately experiencing life with a free spirit and sense of independence, able to grow and survive anywhere, and driven to succeed. —Vogue Club, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024

Its through her that Schicchi is both most passionately critiqued and canonized. —Leila Latif, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024

This new position is going to give you a chance to set yourself free and start to live more passionately. —Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above