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

Although only about two dozen residents attended Wednesday's meeting, several spoke out passionately against the back-to-back increases. —Eva Andersen, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025

Théo is passionately in love with Eve, twenty years his senior. —Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2025

By April 2022, the pair seemingly confirmed their romance when they were spotted passionately kissing in West Hollywood. —Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025

That sense of discovery is what Beyond passionately stirs in you while playing. —PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for passionately

• compassionately
• dispassionately