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| Main Entry: | loving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressing adoration |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, amatory, amiable, amorous, anxious, appreciative, ardent, attentive, benevolent, concerned, considerate, cordial, dear, demonstrative, devoted, doting, earnest, enamored, erotic, expressive, faithful, fervent, fond, friendly, generous, idolatrous, impassioned, infatuated, kind, liking, loyal, passionate, respecting, reverent, romantic, sentimental, solicitous, tender, thoughtful, warm, worshipful, zealous, admiring, attached, bound up, caring, reverential, valuing, warm-hearted |
| Antonyms: | mean, disliking, hating |
| Main Entry: | love |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adore, like very much |
| Synonyms: | admire, adulate, be attached to, be captivated by, be crazy about, be enamored of, be enchanted by, be fascinated with, be fond of, be in love with, canonize, care for, cherish, choose, deify, delight in, dote on, esteem, exalt, fall for, fancy, glorify, go for*, gone on, have affection for, have it bad, hold dear, hold high, idolize, long for, lose one's heart to, prefer, prize, put on pedestal, think the world of, thrive with, treasure, venerate, wild for, worship |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, scorn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | love |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have sexual relations |
| Synonyms: | caress, clasp, cling, cosset, court, cuddle, draw close, embrace, feel, fondle, hold, hug, kiss, lick, look tenderly, make love, neck*, pet*, press, shine, soothe, stroke, take into one's arms, tryst, woo |
| Antonyms: | abstain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affectionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having or showing fondness |
| Synonyms: | dear, devoted, doting, fond, friendly, kind, loving, mushy*, partial, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, all over, attached, caring, crazy over, huggy, lovey-dovey, nutty about, soft on |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, cold, cool, disliking, undemonstrative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affectionate, desirous |
| Synonyms: | amorous, aphrodisiac, ardent, devoted, doting, erotic, fervent, fond, languishing, lovesick, loving, passionate, rapturous, romantic, sentimental, tender, yearning, admiring, attracted, wooing |
| Antonyms: | hateful, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | devoted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | committed, loyal |
| Synonyms: | adherent, affectionate, ardent, concerned, consecrated, constant, crazy about*, dear, dedicated, devout, doting, dutiful, faithful, fervid, fond, loving, staunch, steadfast, thoughtful, true, true-blue*, zealous, behind one, caring, gone on, lovesome, stuck on, wild about |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disloyal, inconstant, neglectful, negligent, uncommitted, unfaithful, untrustworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | doting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indulgent; serving |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, devoted, fascinated, fatuous, fond, foolish, lovesick, loving, silly, simple, struck, adoring, lovesome |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | enamored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in love |
| Synonyms: | amorous, attracted, besotted, bewitched, captivated, charmed, crazy about*, devoted, dotty, enchanted, enraptured, entranced, fascinated, fond, gone*, has a thing about, hooked*, infatuated, loving, nuts about, silly about, smitten, stuck on, swept off one's feet, taken, wild about |
| Antonyms: | disliked, hated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | have a liking or taste for |
| Synonyms: | addicted, affectionate, amorous, devoted, doting, enamored, indulgent, loving, mushy*, partial, predisposed, responsive, romantic, sentimental, sympathetic, tender, warm, adoring, attached, caring, keen on, lovesome, lovey-dovey, silly over |
| Antonyms: | hostile, hating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | friendly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intimate, companionable |
| Synonyms: | affable, affectionate, amiable, amicable, attentive, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, chummy*, civil, close, conciliatory, convivial, cordial, faithful, familiar, favorable, fond, genial, good, helpful, kind, kindly, loving, loyal, neighborly, outgoing, peaceable, peaceful, propitious, receptive, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, tender, thick, attached, buddy-buddy*, clubby, comradely, confiding, on good terms, welcoming, well-disposed* |
| Antonyms: | aloof, antagonistic, cold, cool, incompatible, unfriendly, unsociable, uncompanionable, unreceptive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, giving |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, affable, amiable, amicable, approachable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, big-hearted, bland, charitable, chivalrous, civil, compassionate, complaisant, congenial, considerate, cordial, courteous, courtly, easy, forthcoming, friendly, gallant, genial, good-natured, hospitable, indulgent, lenient, loving, merciful, mild, obliging, pleasing, polite, sociable, stately, suave, tender, unctuous, urbane, well-mannered, benignant, bonhomous, good-hearted |
| Notes: | graceful means characterized by beauty of movement, style, or form; gracious means characterized by charm, good taste, kindness, and generosity of spirit |
| Antonyms: | discourteous, hateful, mean, nasty, rude, sarcastic, severe, ungracious, unkind, vulgar, ungiving |
| Main Entry: | heartwarming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasant |
| Synonyms: | cheering, encouraging, exhilarating, heartfelt, inspiring, joyous, loving, stirring, sweet, gladdening, heartening |
| Main Entry: | kind |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generous, good |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, altruistic, amiable, amicable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, big, charitable, clement, compassionate, congenial, considerate, cordial, courteous, eleemosynary, friendly, gentle, gracious, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, loving, mild, neighborly, obliging, philanthropic, propitious, soft touch, softhearted, sympathetic, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, understanding, all heart, bleeding-heart, bounteous, good-hearted, heart in right place |
| Antonyms: | bad, bitter, cruel, inconsiderate, mean, unfriendly, ungenerous, unkind |
| Main Entry: | lenient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | permissive |
| Synonyms: | amiable, benign, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, condoning, easy, easygoing, emollient, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, good-natured, indulgent, kind, kindly, loving, merciful, mild, obliging, permitting, soft, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tolerant, yielding, allowing, assuaging, assuasive, being big, benignant, excusing, favoring, going easy on, humoring, letting, live with, mollycoddling, pampering, pardoning, soft-shell, spoiling |
| Antonyms: | hard, intolerant, restrictive, rigorous, severe, limiting |
| Main Entry: | parental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having the quality or nature of a parent |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, benevolent, benign, comforting, devoted, fatherly, fond, forbearing, gentle, indulgent, kind, loving, maternal, motherly, paternal, protective, tender, warm, watchful, caring, matriarchal, patriarchal, sheltering, supportive |
| Main Entry: | relish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great appreciation of something |
| Synonyms: | appetite, bias, diversion, enjoyment, fancy, flair, flavor, fondness, gusto, heart, leaning, liking, love, loving, partiality, penchant, pleasure, predilection, prejudice, propensity, savor, smack, stomach, tang, taste, zest, delectation, enjoying, palate, sapidity, sapor |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | romantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, idealistic |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, amorous, charming, chimerical, chivalrous, colorful, corny*, daring, dreamy, enchanting, erotic, exciting, exotic, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fond, glamorous, idyllic, impractical, loving, maudlin, mushy*, mysterious, nostalgic, passionate, picturesque, poetic, quixotic, sloppy*, starry-eyed, tender, unrealistic, utopian, visionary, whimsical, wild, bathetic, fairy-tale, lovey-dovey, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | pragmatic, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sentimental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emotional, romantic |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy, effusive, gushing, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, loving, maudlin, mushy*, nostalgic, overacted, passionate, pathetic, saccharine*, sappy*, silly, sloppy*, soapy, soft, softhearted*, sugary*, sweet, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy, gushy, lovey-dovey, moonstruck, overemotional, rosewater, schmaltzy, simpering, slushy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, pragmatic, unemotional, hard-hearted, unromantic, unsentimental |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sexual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning reproduction, intercourse |
| Synonyms: | animal, bestial, carnal, erotic, fleshly, intimate, loving, passionate, reproductive, sensual, sharing, voluptuous, wanton, animalistic, generative, genital, genitive, procreative, venereal |
| Antonyms: | asexual, nonsexual |
| Main Entry: | solicitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worried |
| Synonyms: | anxious, apprehensive, ardent, attentive, avid, beside oneself, careful, concerned, devoted, eager, earnest, heedful, impatient, keen, loving, mindful, raring, regardful, tender, thirsty, troubled, uneasy, zealous, appetent, athirst, caring, worried sick, worried stiff |
| Antonyms: | laid-back, unafraid, easy-going, unworried |
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