Definition of "appassionato" [appassionato]

• Impassioned; emotional: in music, noting passages to be so rendered.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If George shies at this, it can be tried again later -- say during an "appassionato" passage for the violins and cellos."
• "So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamourWith the great black piano appassionato."
• ": Marked "Allegro appassionato," a tremendous discharge of despairing passion, concluding with three foreboding D's from the bowels of the piano."