passionately

adverb

pas·sion·ate·ly ˈpa-sh(ə-)nət-lē

: in a passionate manner:

: 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

: with strong feelings of sexual desire

They fell passionately in love.

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UConn coach Dan Hurley passionately lobbied for Dan Hurley as the No. 1 coach. —

Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025 Shazia is passionately dedicated to working toward data governance. —

Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025 These hands will passionately love you and cherish and will be able to comfort you like no other. —

Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025 That said, the fact that people are coming up with in-world justifications for it speaks to how passionately people care about the show. —

Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for passionately