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Synonyms for love
lʌvlove
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
love
Affection is kindly feeling, deep, tender, and constant, going out to some person or object, being less fervent and ardent than love, whether applied to persons or things. Love is an intense and absorbing emotion, drawing one toward a person or object and causing one to appreciate, delight in, and crave the presence or possession of the person or object loved, and to desire to please and benefit the person, or to advance the cause, truth, or other object of affection; it is the yearning or outgoing of soul toward something that is regarded as excellent, beautiful, or desirable; love may be briefly defined as strong and absorbing affection for and attraction toward a person or object. Love may denote the sublimest and holiest spiritual affection as when we are taught that "God is love." Charity has so far swung aside from this original meaning that probably it never can be recalled (compare BENEVOLENCE). The Revised Version uses love in place of charity in 1 Cor. xiii, and elsewhere. Love is more intense, absorbing, and tender than friendship, more intense, impulsive, and perhaps passionate than affection; we speak of fervent love, but of deep or tender affection, or of close, firm, strong friendship. Love is used specifically for personal affection between the sexes in the highest sense, the love that normally leads to marriage, and subsists throughout all happy wedded life. Love can never properly denote mere animal passion, which is expressed by such words as appetite, desire, lust. One may properly be said to have love for animals, for inanimate objects, or for abstract qualities that enlist the affections, as we speak of love for a horse or a dog, for mountains, woods, ocean, or of love of nature, and love of virtue. Love of articles of food is better expressed by liking, as love, in its full sense, expresses something spiritual and reciprocal, such as can have no place in connection with objects that minister merely to the senses. Compare ATTACHMENT; FRIENDSHIP.
See synonyms for ANTIPATHY; ENMITY; HATRED.
Synonyms:
affection, attachment, attraction, charity, devotion, fondness, friendship, liking, regard, tendernessPreposition:
Love of country; for humanity; love to God and man.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
love
Synonyms:
affection, attachment, passion, devotion, benevolence, charity, kindnessAntonyms:
hatred, dislike, disaffection, alienation, estrangement, bitterness, coldness, indifference, repugnance, infidelity, desertion, unkindness, malice, uncharitableness
Princeton's WordNet
lovenoun
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
"his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love"
Synonyms:
dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honeylove, passionnoun
any object of warm affection or devotion
"the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting";
Synonyms:
erotic love, mania, cacoethes, love life, beloved, passionateness, dearest, passion, warmth, making love, rage, honey, lovemaking, sexual love, dear, heatbeloved, dear, dearest, honey, lovenoun
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
Synonyms:
dear, lamb, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honeylove, sexual love, erotic lovenoun
a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
"their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love"
Synonyms:
dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honeylovenoun
a score of zero in tennis or squash
"it was 40 love"
Synonyms:
dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honeysexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love lifeverb
sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
"his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life"
Synonyms:
dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honeyloveverb
have a great affection or liking for
"I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him"
Synonyms:
jazz, have sex, do it, enjoy, hump, bang, screw, have intercourse, sleep together, bonk, know, roll in the hay, get it on, lie with, have it away, be intimate, eff, have a go at it, get laid, bed, make out, have it off, sleep with, make lovelove, enjoyverb
get pleasure from
"I love cooking"
Synonyms:
jazz, have sex, do it, enjoy, hump, bang, screw, relish, have intercourse, sleep together, bonk, know, roll in the hay, get it on, lie with, have it away, be intimate, eff, delight, bask, have a go at it, get laid, bed, make out, have it off, savour, savor, sleep with, revel, make loveloveverb
be enamored or in love with
"She loves her husband deeply"
Synonyms:
jazz, have sex, do it, enjoy, hump, bang, screw, have intercourse, sleep together, bonk, know, roll in the hay, get it on, lie with, have it away, be intimate, eff, have a go at it, get laid, bed, make out, have it off, sleep with, make lovesleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonkverb
have sexual intercourse with
"This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
Synonyms:
spang, discern, bang, screw, acknowledge, recognise, deal, whop, grapple, get along, bop, distinguish, go to sleep, bash, make love, do, jazz, cheat, roll in the hay, sock, cut, be intimate, retire, pick out, live, eff, go to bed, bonk, recognize, spot, hunch over, slam, do it, chicane, have intercourse, hit the sack, make out, manage, jockey, have sex, tell apart, complete, cognise, neck, whap, fill out, fill in, have a go at it, drive in, bed, have it away, sleep with, enjoy, sack out, hit the hay, contend, hunch forward, issue, hump, get laid, have it off, make do, sleep together, get by, write out, turn in, cope, crawl in, chouse, experience, know, come, get it on, kip down, shaft, fare, lie with, cognize, hunch
Editors Contribution
amory
from the romance-language amour.
polyamory: loving multiple others.
Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019genipapadverb
genipap means love.
i genipap you!
Submitted by fefewpoop on September 7, 2021lakshman
you are a lakshamanan
wislynoun
to have great affection towards someone
wisly is everywhere
Submitted by enockwisly24 on November 25, 2021
Dictionary of English Synonymes
loveverb
Synonyms:
have affection for, regard with affectionloveverb
Synonyms:
have a passionate affection for, be in love with, be enamoured ofloveverb
Synonyms:
like, be pleased withloveverb
Synonyms:
delight, take pleasurelovenoun
Synonyms:
affection, affectionate regardlovenoun
Synonyms:
attachment, passionate affection, the tender passionlovenoun
lovenoun
Synonyms:
lover, person belovedlovenoun
Synonyms:
cupid, god of love
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
lovenoun
Synonyms:
affection, devotion, infatuation, passion, amorousness, amativeness, cupid, eros, venus, aphrodite, amorino, philanthropy, storge
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How to use love in a sentence?
It's not difficult at all for me. And the reason being is that many of the people at this brokerage are longtime, very close – some of my best friends and I love the people who work at this brokerage, and yes, Mary and I had a romantic relationship.
If the universe had one second left of love would you let it touch your heart?
Kids have a lot of snot, they have a lot of drool and they go to school, we love them, but they are a lot of the reason flu moves around the community.
I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president.
One thing that you and I have in common is that we both love me.
Translations for love
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- حبArabic
- láskaCzech
- elskerDanish
- liebenGerman
- αγάπηGreek
- amoEsperanto
- amarSpanish
- عشقPersian
- rakkausFinnish
- amourFrench
- gráIrish
- प्यारHindi
- szerelemHungarian
- ՍերArmenian
- cintaIndonesian
- amoreItalian
- אוהבHebrew
- 愛Japanese
- ಪ್ರೀತಿKannada
- 사랑Korean
- amantLatin
- liefdeDutch
- kjærlighetNorwegian
- miłośćPolish
- amorPortuguese
- dragosteRomanian
- любовьRussian
- kärlekSwedish
- அன்புTamil
- ప్రేమTelugu
- ความรักThai
- AşkTurkish
- любовUkrainian
- محبتUrdu
- YêuVietnamese
- ליבעYiddish
- 爱Chinese
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