Antonyms for Love
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. 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, tenderness

   Preposition:
   Love of country; for humanity; love to God and man.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. love

   Antonyms:
   hatred, dislike, disaffection, alienation, estrangement, bitterness, coldness, indifference, repugnance, infidelity, desertion, unkindness, malice, uncharitableness

   Synonyms:
   affection, attachment, passion, devotion, benevolence, charity, kindness

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1. • Emotion
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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.7 / 11 votes

1. lovenoun

   a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

   "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love"

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

   Synonyms:
   dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey

2. love, passionnoun

   any object of warm affection or devotion

   "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting";

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

   Synonyms:
   erotic love, mania, cacoethes, love life, beloved, love, passionateness, dearest, passion, warmth, making love, rage, honey, lovemaking, sexual love, dear, heat

3. beloved, dear, dearest, honey, lovenoun

   a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

   Synonyms:
   love, dear, lamb, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey

4. love, 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"

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

   Synonyms:
   love, dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey

5. lovenoun

   a score of zero in tennis or squash

   "it was 40 love"

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

   Synonyms:
   dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey

6. sexual 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"

   Antonyms:
   hatred, hate, detest

   Synonyms:
   love, dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey

7. loveverb

   have a great affection or liking for

   "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him"

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

   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 love

8. love, enjoyverb

   get pleasure from

   "I love cooking"

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

   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, love, have a go at it, get laid, bed, make out, have it off, savour, savor, sleep with, revel, make love

9. loveverb

   be enamored or in love with

   "She loves her husband deeply"

   Antonyms:
   hatred, hate, detest

   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 love

10. sleep 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?"

    Antonyms:
    hatred, hate, detest

    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, love, 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

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1. lovenoun

   Synonyms:
   affection, devotion, infatuation, passion, amorousness, amativeness, cupid, eros, venus, aphrodite, amorino, philanthropy, storge

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dislike

   i don't like you

   i dislike you which is the opposite of loving you.

   Submitted by 517256 on February 25, 2020  

2. phobianoun

   actually, the opposite of phobia is philia, love, but it appears only to be used in combination with another word as in photophobia, photophilia.

   one day i suffered from a phobia of men, the next from a philia. blowing cold and hot!

   Submitted by jriseman on December 22, 2021  

How to use Love in a sentence?

1. Stephen Fry:

   This year, the stars have colluded and collided in such a way to make the BAFTAs coincide with Valentine's Day, love between two women, love between roman catholic priests ... and... their lawyers.

2. Prophet Mohammed:

   The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.

3. Rita Moreno:

   It's like you can never do right it seems, this is the man who literally has brought Latino-ness and Puerto Rican-ness to America. I couldn't do it. I mean, I would love to say I did, but I couldn't. Lin-Manuel has done that, really single-handedly, and I'm thrilled to pieces, and I'm proud that he produced my documentary.

4. Jessica Chastain:

   This is a film that also focuses on the light, yes, there is a dark side of humanity. But, also, there is beauty, love ... and those who really stick their neck out to exhibit love and to show compassion.

5. Dolly Parton:

   James and I love Reese and look forward to working with her and her wonderful team.

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