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

Thomas Jefferson, as secretary of state, passionately advocated honoring the treaty, viewing it as a debt of gratitude to a nation that shared republican ideals and had sacrificed much for American liberty. —Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026

The vice president, who raised his voice at times while speaking, passionately defended the ICE agent — who has since been identified as Jonathan Ross — while characterizing Good as a radical activist. —Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026

Fastvold, though, was passionately inspired by Lee’s biography, and imagined a film that would dramatize not only her story, but the kinds of convictions that contributed to the founding of this country. —Claire Messud, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2026

Green, as is his wont, continued passionately pleading his case. —Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for passionately

• compassionately
• dispassionately