appassionato

[uh-pah-see-uh-nah-toh, uh-pash-uh-, ahp-pahs-syaw-nah-taw]

adjective

Music.

1. impassioned; with passion or strong feeling.

appassionato

/ əˌpæsjəˈnɑːtəʊ /

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of appassionato¹

From Italian; 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

The compact finale is a manic, dense and fiendishly difficult Allegro Appassionato.

From New York Times

Like the first Turing phone, the Appassionato phone would have been made of liquidmorphium, a liquid metal alloy, but unlike its predecessor, it had a USB-C port and a headphone jack, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage.

From The Verge

Then in 2017, Turing promised to deliver a new phone called the Appassionato for $1,099, with a luxury edition that cost $1,599.

From The Verge

The Appassionato was powered by a Snapdragon 821 processor, which looked increasingly outdated compared to the processors of other rival flagships on the market as Turing was slow to deliver.

From The Verge