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appassionato

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

adjective

Music.
  1. impassioned; with passion or strong feeling.


appassionato British  
/ əˌpæsjəˈnɑːtəʊ /

adjective

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of appassionato

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


Example Sentences

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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

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 Rupert Hughes

While she was speaking he thought of the andante appassionato comparison.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey

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