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Definitions: Passionately |
PassionatelyAdverb1. With passion; "she kissed him passionately". 2. In a stormy or violent manner. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "passionately" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: PassionatelySynonyms: stormily (adv), turbulently (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Passionately |
| English words defined with "passionately": fanatically. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "passionately": Blanchefleur ♦ reality-distortion field. (references) |
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 | Oh, he cried passionately, if I could only be a lump of dirt under your feet.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Seized the outstretched hand and kissed it passionately.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Harriet Smith might think herself not unworthy of being peculiarly, exclusively, passionately loved by Mr. Knightley. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | He threw off all assistance, and stepped passionately forward a pace before the woman and the child. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cosette was ignorant of the transporting legend, (r)I love thee a little, passionately, etc. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Lets just face it, folks, when it comes to things I'm passionately involved with and care deeply about, I'm right! |
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Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | We can be proud that they are better educated, more committed, more passionately driven by conscience than any generation in our history. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | It's a message she is passionately advocating every day. |
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| "Passionately" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.73% of the time. "Passionately" is used about 365 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.73% | 364 | 14,842 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 365 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "passionately": passionately fond ♦ passionately in love. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
kiss passionately | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "passionately"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | plot pasion, me zjarr (zealously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 熱情 (cordial, enthusiastic, passion, passionate), 多情地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tulisesti (ardently, hotly), intohimoisesti (with emotion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | passionnément (with passion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | leidenschaftlich (ardent, ardently, fanatical, fervent, fervently, impassioned, keen, keenly, passionate, tempestuous, vehement, vigorous, violent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φλογερά (vehemently). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szenvedélyesen (fervidly, hotly, to be on the job, to lust after a woman, vehemently). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | intim (heartfully, intimate), dengan kasih sayang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 熱熱 (passionately in love, piping hot), 熱愛 (ardent love, devotion, love passionately), 熱々 (passionately in love, piping hot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねつあい (ardent love, devotion, love passionately), あつあつ (passionately in love, piping hot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 열 하게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assionatelypay pãtimaş (ardent, ardently, fervent, fervently, fiery, inveterate, lustily, passionate), vehement (bitterly, harangue, hot and strong, passionate, vehement, vehemently, violent), orbeşte (automatically, blindfoldedly, blindly, haphazardly, mechanically, recklessly, robot-like, unconsciously), cu pasiune (lustily), cãlduros (affectionate, ardently, cordial, devout, devoutly, hot, passionate, warm, warmly), arzãtor (ardent, ardently, burner, burning, fiery, hot, hot-blooded, intense, scorching, sultry, topical, urgent), aprig (cruel, ferocious, fierce, fiery, grim, hard-hearted, harshly, high-spirited, impetuous, passionate, severe, sharp, truculent, violent). (various references) страстно. (various references) strasno (affectionately, ardently). (various references) apasionadamente (fervently, hot). (various references) passionerat. (various references) tutkun (addicted to, amorous, bug, enamoured, passionately in love). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "passionately": compassionately, dispassionately. (additional references) | |
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"Passionately" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: passionatley, passionatly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "passionately" (pronounced pa"shunutlē) |
| 9 | p a" sh u n u t l ē | compassionately, dispassionately. |
| 7 | -sh u n u t l ē | affectionately, disproportionately, proportionately. |
| 6 | -u n u t l ē | definitely, fortunately, indefinitely, indiscriminately, infinitely, inordinately, unfortunately. |
| 5 | -n u t l ē | alternately, minutely. |
| 4 | -u t l ē | accurately, adequately, appropriately, approximately, commensurately, deliberately, delicately, desperately, elaborately, explicitly, exquisitely, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, implicitly, inaccurately, inadequately, inappropriately, intimately, intricately, legitimately, moderately, privately, quietly, secretly, separately, tacitly, ultimately. |
| 3 | -t l ē | abruptly, absolutely, abundantly, accidently, acutely, adamantly, adroitly, apparently, aptly, ardently, arrogantly, astutely, blatantly, bluntly, brightly, brilliantly, coherently, competently, complacently, completely, concomitantly, concretely, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, currently, curtly, decently, defiantly, deftly, devoutly, differently, difficultly, diligently, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, distinctly, earnestly, efficiently, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, exactly, excellently, expertly, extravagantly, exultantly, faintly, fervently, firstly, flagrantly, flamboyantly, flatly, fluently, forthrightly, fortnightly, fraudulently, frequently, gently, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, hesitantly, honestly, hotly, imminently, impatiently, imperfectly, importantly, imprudently, inadvertently, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, incorrectly, independently, indignantly, indirectly, inefficiently, ineptly, infrequently, inherently, innately, innocently, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intently, intermittently, jointly, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, leniently, lightly, magnificently, manifestly, militantly, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, negligently, nightly, nonchalantly, obediently, overtly, partly, patently, patiently, perfectly, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, politely, portly, predominantly, presently, priestly, prominently, promptly, prudently, pungently, quaintly, raptly, recently, reluctantly, remotely, resolutely, reverently, rightly, robustly, saintly, shortly, significantly, silently, slightly, smartly, softly, sprightly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, stridently, stringently, subsequently, succinctly, sufficiently, sweetly, swiftly, tightly, transparently, triumphantly, unjustly, unpleasantly, unsightly, urgently, valiantly, vastly, vehemently, violently, virulently, Whitely. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: seasonality. | |
-2 letters: neoplasias, passionate. | |
-3 letters: antipoles, insolates, neoplasia, palatines, panelists, passional, pointless, ponytails, sapiently, saponites, spoliates, stapelias, talapoins. | |
-4 letters: alations, analyses, analysis, analysts, anapests, anisoles, anolytes, anopsias, antipole, apostasy, apostils, apostles, astonies, elastins, elations, entasias, epinasty, epistasy, epsilons, insolate, isolates, isotypes, lanosity, nailsets, nasalise, nasality, opalines, paesanos, painless, paisanos, paisleys, palatine, panelist, pantiles, pastinas, peasants, penality, pistoles, plainest, platanes, platinas, pleasant, plenists, polentas, ponytail, postanal, potlines, ptyalins, salients, salpians, saltines, saltpans, saponite, sealants, seasonal, senopias, soapiest, spaniels, spoliate, stapelia, staysail, steapsin, talapoin, toenails, toplines, topsails, tylosins. | |
-5 letters: aeolian, alation, aliases, alpines, anality, analyse, analyst, anapest, anisole, anlases, anolyte, anopias, anopsia, apetaly, aplenty, aplites, apnoeal, apnoeas, apostil, apostle, aptness, atlases, atonies, atopies, elastin, elation, elysian, enlists, entails, entasia, entasis, entoils, epinaos, epsilon, espanol, espials, etalons, inaptly, ineptly, insoles, instals, insteps, isolate, isotype, lapises, latinos, leptons, lesions, linseys, lioness, lipases, listens, lysates, lysines, nailset, napless, nasties, nastily, nosiest, opaline, opiates, paesani, paesano, paesans, paisano, paisans, paisley, palates, paliest, palsies, pansies, panties, pantile, passant, passion, pastels, pasties, pastils, pastina, patinae, patinas, patines, patness, patsies, payolas, peasant, pelotas, penalty, pensils, pentyls, petasos, petsais, peyotls, pinatas, pineals, pinoles, pintles, pintoes, piolets, pissant, pistole, pistols, pistons, plaints, planate, planets, platane, platans, platens, platies, platina, plenist, pointes, polenta, poleyns, pontils, postals, postins, potline, potsies, ptisans, ptyalin, saintly, salient, salinas, salines, salpian, salties, saltine, saltpan, santols, sapiens, sapient, sapotas, sapotes, sealant, senopia, sestina, silanes, silents, slainte, soapily, solates, solatia, sonatas, sopites, spaniel, spatial, spinals, spinate, spinels, spinets, spinose, spintos, spitals, splenia, splents, splines, splints, sponsal, staples, stepson, stipels, stonily, stylise, synapse, systole, taenias, taipans, talions, talipes, tansies, tapalos, tapises, teapoys, telsons, tenails, teopans, tinsels, tipless, tisanes, toenail, tolanes, tonsils, topless, topline, topsail, toyless, tylosin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-s-t-y" | |
+3 letters: compassionately, dispassionately. | |
+4 letters: hypersalivations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 73 73 69 6F 6E 61 74 65 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- ... ... .. --- -. .- - . .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a s s i o n a t e l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E 0061 0074 0065 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506785857581806786717891 |
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