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

Parks-Reese: I am endorsed by Defense of Democracy, an organization that is passionately committed to nonpartisanship and welcomes anyone who opposes the oppression of their fellow Americans. —John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2024

Inspired, Evan comes up on stage and embraces Malcolm, kissing him passionately. —Barry Levitt, TIME, 15 Oct. 2024

Served 24 years in the National Guard, passionately. —Isabella Murray, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2024

The women of The View became their own Hot Topic on Thursday, with co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin responding directly — and passionately — to recent insults lobbed at them by former president Donald Trump. —Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above