Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or expressive of love, especially sexual love: an amatory mood; an amatory embrace.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to, producing, or supposed to produce love; expressive of love; amatorial: as, amatory poems.
- Synonyms See amorous.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
Etymologies
- From Latin amatorius ("pertaining to love or a lover"), from amator ("a lover"), from amare ("to love"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin amātōrius, from amātor, lover; see amateur. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Her subject was usually 'amatory' fiction, narratives of desire focussing on highly charged sexual episodes, concerned with love and seduction in all their guises.”
“He is much more in his element when he proves that a lover is to his mistress, when she is about to go to a ball, only a "decimal of a lover," a kind of amatory tailor or ninth part of man; or when, in the”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
“Google Translate comes up with this version of a Spanish-language article in Petroleum World: “After his second divorce, amatory life of Hugo Chávez has shielded beneath the mysterious mantle of power.””
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » The Love Life Of Hugo Chavez
“How amatory God contingency be to have bestowed this ray of light in to his miserable life.”
“Almonds in particular have been touted for their amatory properties, being, as they are, fragrant and shaped like a woman's hips.”
The Huffington Post: Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Carrots And Sex
“One might see this as someprofound metaphor for the human condition, or at least its amatory component.”
“ Fifi returns with Fritz's snack, allowing him to camouflage his excitement as amatory.”
“But my lack of post-adolescent amatory success has never stood in the way of my fantasy life, so I picked a table halfway across the room with an unobstructed view of the woman, took my seat, and unwrapped my sandwich, looking forward to a little mentalliaison, when from the other direction came — four female security guards.”
“As a recent graduate of the Richard M. Nixon School of Charm I was confident of abilities to do so, yet sadly, both amatory and monetary ambitions went unrealized.”
“Brown is usually seen as a rather one-dimensional "friend of Keats," robust and masculine, practical and business-like, with a proclivity for "good living and amatory indiscretion.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘amatory’.
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My first list
exposition, anecdote, perspicacious, polemic, imbroglio, irascible, vicissitude, venality, payola, amatory, caliginous, avuncular and 5 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words describing beauty
Words associated with beauty, love, and a happy feeling!
whimsical, amatory, amorous, paradisiacal, calliope, callitriche, Callimachus, callinectes, calliphora, seraphic, calliopsis, callirhoe and 27 more...
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Words that sound nice
I can't say exactly what makes these words sound so harmonious...the finely balanced distribution of consonants and vowels? the lack of harsh sounds? the regal elegance of Latin roots? anyway...
felicity, luminous, caliper, amatory, valedictorian, sanatorium, nice, chrysalis, luminosity, luminescence, senescence, evanescence and 6 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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5000 FREE SAT Words
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 229 more...
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Verecund, flivver, etc
Just some words I happen to enjoy. Some thread-worn, some not.
yegg, yob, verecund, amatory, fermata, threepenny, gruntled, flivver, gamboge, decolletage, ordure, nudnik and 173 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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wickedwitch's list
lll
alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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Thomas's Words
argus-eyed, chasmophile, extirpate, aperitif, outre, repartee, schadenfreude, insouciant, joie de vivre, callipygian, cavil, ad hominem and 147 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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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Words I wrote down while reading this book
heptarchy, kibe, antiquary, wold, mendacious, vamp, vale, miry, calcareous, cerealia, ostleress, desultory and 105 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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the house of spirits
hatbox, cabalistic, viscera, gringo, collateral, concupiscence, negritude, impunity, panoply, barro, cossack, harangue and 35 more...
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