loving (ˈlʌvɪŋ
)
Definitions
adjective
- feeling, showing, or indicating love and affection
Alternative Forms
ˈlovingly adverb ˈlovingness nounSynonyms
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affectionate,
kind,
warm,
dear,
friendly,
devoted,
tender,
fond,
ardent,
cordial,
doting,
amorous,
solicitous,
demonstrative,
warm-hearted,
love (lʌv)
Definitions
verb
- (tr) to have a great attachment to and affection for
- (tr) to have passionate desire, longing, and feelings for
- (tr) to like or desire (to do something) very much
- (tr) to make love to
- (intr) to be in love
noun
- an intense emotion of affection, warmth, fondness, and regard towards a person or thing
- ((as modifier) ⇒
love song
love story
- a deep feeling of sexual attraction and desire
- wholehearted liking for or pleasure in something
- Christianity
- God's benevolent attitude towards man
- man's attitude of reverent devotion towards God
- Also
my love a beloved person: used esp as an endearment - British informal a term of address, esp but not necessarily for a person regarded as likable
- (in tennis, squash, etc) a score of zero
- See fall in love
- See for love
- See for love or money
- See for the love of
- See in love
- See make love
related adjective
amatory
Word Origin
Old English lufu; related to Old High German luba; compare also Latin libēre (originally lubēre) to pleaseSynonyms
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adore,
care for,
treasure,
cherish,
prize,
worship,
be devoted to be attached to be in love with
dote on,
hold dear
think the world of,
idolize,
feel affection for have affection for
adulate,
LUV,
=
enjoy,
like,
desire,
fancy,
appreciate,
relish,
delight in
savour,
take pleasure in have a soft spot for be partial to have a weakness for
LUV,
=
passion,
liking,
regard,
friendship,
affection,
warmth,
attachment,
intimacy,
devotion,
tenderness,
fondness,
rapture,
adulation,
adoration,
infatuation,
ardour,
endearment,
aroha,
amity,
LUV,
=
liking,
taste,
delight in bent for weakness for relish for
enjoyment,
devotion to penchant for inclination for zest for fondness for soft spot for partiality to
LUV,
=
beloved,
dear,
dearest,
sweet,
lover,
angel,
darling,
honey,
loved one
sweetheart,
truelove,
dear one
leman,
inamorata or inamorato
LUV,
=
sympathy,
understanding,
heart,
charity,
pity,
humanity,
warmth,
mercy,
compassion,
sorrow,
kindness,
tenderness,
friendliness,
condolence,
commiseration,
fellow feeling,
soft-heartedness,
tender-heartedness,
aroha,
LUV,
Quotations
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
"All that matters is love and work"
"Money was scarce but new love has no need of money. Somewhere to go, to be together is all and we were lucky. We had that. Hell is love with no place to go"
"To be overtopped in anything else I can bear: but in the tests of generous love I defy all mankind"
"Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life"
"What love is, if thou wouldst be taught,Thy heart must teach alone -Two souls with but a single thought,Two hearts that beat as one"
"Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it"
"Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life"
"No, there's nothing half so sweet in lifeAs love's young dream"
"And all for love, and nothing for reward"
"'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all"
"Love means never having to say you're sorry"
"In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love"
"Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it"
"Love conquers all things; let us too give in to love"
"Love and do what you will"
"Those have most power to hurt us that we love"
"My love's a noble madness"
"And love's the noblest frailty of the mind"
"Love's tongue is in the eyes"
"Love is only one of many passions"
"Where both deliberate, the love is slight;Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?"
"If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?"
"Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure"
"Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love"
"The course of true love never did run smooth"
"Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds"
"Love is like linen - often changed, the sweeter"
"O my love's like a red, red rose"
"Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love"
"Every man is a poet when he is in love"
"one that lov'd not wisely but too well"
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god"
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away"
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction"
"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret"
"Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry"
"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it"
Bible: Song of Solomon"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends"
Bible: St. John"O lyric Love, half-angel and half-birdAnd all a wonder and a wild desire"
"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,'Tis woman's whole existence"
"Whoever loves, if he do not proposeThe right true end of love, he's one that goesTo sea for nothing but to make him sick"
"I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying soIn whining poetry"
"How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying"
"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another"
"After all, my erstwhile dear,My no longer cherished,Need we say it was not love,Now that love has perished?"
"If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: `Because it was he; because it was me.'"
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies"
"Love thy neighbour as thyself"
Bible: Leviticus"All's fair in love and war"
"Love is blind"
"One cannot love and be wise"
"Love makes the world go round"
"Love will find a way"
Usage examples
Stella forgot about poaching for a moment and leaned back against him, loving the feeling of his strong body wrapped around hers.
, JUST BETWEEN US (2002)James scraped off a layer of crusted mud with his boot to reveal: In loving memory of Henry Helby.
Country Life (2004)His grisly demise was the mirror opposite of his music, which often sparkles with a delicate and loving grandeur.
Globe and Mail (2003)The story is summed up by director Karan Johar in the catchline:'It's all about loving your parents.
Glasgow Herald (2001)He didn't get on at the council offices because he wasn't bright; he was just loving and worshipped his wife.
, THE TURN OF THE TIDE (2004)