Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to or inclined toward love, especially sexual love; amorous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of love; amorous; amatory; disposed or disposing to love.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of love; amatory.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. inclined toward or displaying love
Etymologies
- From Medieval Latin amātīvus, from Latin amātus, perfect passive participle of amō ("love"). (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin amātīvus, capable of love, from amātus, past participle of Latin amāre, to love. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“His form was what phrenologists call amative; and of these facts we have some very curious proofs.”
“The waiting was tedious, and having been long denied, the amative element could not brook further delay.”
“Mr. Anesko's writes of "thinly veiled homoeroticism" of James's letters to Andersen and elsewhere of their "undeniably amative nature.”
“For that matter, though not amative to any considerable degree so far as I have discovered, I was never outside the atmosphere of women until now.”
“But situated here he could not go so far as amative cruelty.”
“A similar thing has been seen to take place in those birds that are amative, as partridges and hens.”
“Just like the maquiladora plants, the amative establishments that served their employees operated on a twenty-four-hour work schedule.”
“Forty-second Street had been a sort of Hell's Gate, a place for the grotesquely amative intermingling of species.”
“I fully expected that we would be even later, for the pro cess of fastening buttons has the effect of arousing Emerson's amative instincts.”
“Nor are many persons sufficiently aware of the ruinous extent to which the amative propensity is indulged by married persons.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘amative’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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tree's Words
aphasia, anhedonia, promontory, misandry, amanuensis, asymptote, penultimate, muslin, tundra, calico, kinaesthesia, rutabaga and 209 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Don't Be a LAZY LINGUIST!
Words that remind me to:
Stop speaking with laze.
Exercise my intellect more than my tongue.
Choose Better Company.
This is not the "Ooh, I love the way these words ...splore, inoculate, dysphemism, bruit, mellifluous, winsome, rancor, aplomb, equivocate, palpable, equivocate, licentious and 128 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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msc's Words
pugilist, threepeat, bloviate, palaver, syncreism, pastiche, eschatology, peripatetic, glossolalia, busker, nudnik, troglodyte and 213 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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SimianFarmer's Words
abnegate, abstemious, amative, ameliorate, apocryphal, apothegm, apotheosis, apposite, arrogate, assiduous, badinage, beneficence and 133 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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Lust
SEXy words
cocotte, strumpet, harlot, quean, concupiscence, orgiastic, succubus, odalisque, paramour, quim, tumid, tumescent and 68 more...
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CryoTox's Words
libertine, lithe, fervent, amative, mollify, inchoate, gracious, wheedle, charlatan, idolatry, saunter, exonerate and 4 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for amative.
yarb I used to re-read your letters for hours
hoping to decode some amative message...
- Peter Reading, A Mon Sevl Desir, from The Prison Cell & Barrel Mystery, 1976 Jun 23, 2008