appassionato

American  

[uh-pah-see-uh-nah-toh, uh-pash-uh-, ahp-pahs-syaw-nah-taw] / əˌpɑ si əˈnɑ toʊ, əˌpæʃ ə-, ɑpˌpɑs syɔˈnɑ tɔ /

adjective

Music.

1. impassioned; with passion or strong feeling.

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appassionato British  

/ əˌpæsjəˈnɑːtəʊ /

adjective

1. music (to be performed) in an impassioned manner

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Etymology

Origin of appassionato

From Italian; see origin at ap- ¹, passion, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

But Berg had the last word with his Allegro appassionato, seeming to make explicit the pervasive yearning of Schubert and take its Romantic sentiment to a breaking point.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

She maintains her common touch but it takes an appassionato of things Roman like me to nod along when Beard complains, of another interpreter: “He reaches too easily for that over-used term apotropaic.”

From Washington Post

"What are you doing here?" roared the conductor, appassionato.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first movement begins solemnly, but breaks into an appassionato.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

When Carl Maria was seventeen, Franz Anton left him in Vienna, where he plunged into dissipation at a tempo presto appassionato.

From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Hughes, Rupert