Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman with whom one is in love or has an intimate relationship.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A woman with whom one is in love.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A woman in love; a mistress.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship
Etymologies
- From the Italian innamorata, the feminine form of innamorato ("lover, boyfriend"), from innamorare ("to make somebody fall in love"), from in- ("in") + amore ("love"). (Wiktionary)
- Italian innamorata, feminine of innamorato, inamorato; see inamorato. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Now Dick appears to have been sleeping around on both his main inamorata, which strikes me as completely out of character.”
“This particular Cleat had thought that his inamorata was an heiress but found the opposite to be the case on their wedding night she, in turn, had been told he was a wealthy “milord” and fallen “in love” accordingly.”
“Sadly, it does not make up for the boneheaded move of not calling his inamorata to tell her that he wasn't going to show in the first place.”
William Bradley: Mad Men: "Wee Small Hours" -- HuffPost Review
“His inamorata was a blue-eyed young German lady, the sweetest and loveliest girl in Berlin; he carried her colors in many a lonely voyage in after years.”
The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World
“He called his inamorata his "soul mate" and, with Cupid's poison arrow in his Republican heart (an oxymoron?), he wept.”
“He called his inamorata his soul mate, and with Cupid's poison arrow in his Republican heart, he wept.”
“Three or four of the party had ventured out, and we had secured a large sackful, after which we all retired to the tent, except one of our number, who, having a lady-love in Cardwell with an inordinate affection for shell-fish, lingered to fill a haversack for his 'inamorata'.”
“At last, his paws ripped to shreds and his ears half bitten off, he sought some tenderness from his furry inamorata.”
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“There is rape and bobbitting and flagellation and chopping up of supposedly unfaithful inamorata.”
“Jim and Jules must suffer, however, because their impetuous inamorata thinks the world is already rich enough, and so she can afford to cheat here, there and everywhere.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inamorata’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Or honey, or baby, or ...
(A Valentine's Day list.)amoret, bonnilasse, ladybird, leikin, leman, love-lass, Phyllis, pout, sweetness, munchkin, darling, sayang and 87 more...
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with equally lovely meanings
benevolence, lithe, aurulent, cherubic, abraxas, forlorn, lullaby, cri de coeur, inamorata, saturnine, auric, effulgence and 2 more...
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Wicked Cool Words
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miasma, libation, laconic, denigrating, deontic, accinge, liquescent, quagmire, exiguous, dirigible, lambasted, lambaste and 89 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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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
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FF
supercilious, laid-back, ditty, clusterfuck, muck up, lichenous, nepheligenous, ascian, inamorata, entropy, derisory
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My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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Manji's Random Wordlist
The title says it all
velour, vivacity, subterfuge, sable, divination, gentry, vindication, compendium, pistons, metamorphosis, methodology, polyphony and 91 more...
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Daily Vocab List
lull, pious, lurid, objurgate, insurgent, lewd, patio, onus, lampoon, geisha, larceny, maim and 206 more...
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R. Peter Jackson's list
cantillation, jackstaff, pullulate, whoremonger, colloquy, batman, anathema, idiosyncratic, facilitation, sympathy, empathy, satrap and 135 more...
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logophile
viresce, infinitum, transient, nonpareil, anon, therianthropy, lycomania, halcyon, unblinkered, seraphim, nephilim, moros and 160 more...
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A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for inamorata.
mollusque I slept fitfully, and only in the small hours glided into a deeper spell (illustrated for no reason at all with the image of my first little inamorata in the grass of an orchard) . . . .
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 46
Jun 7, 2009
tolland Heck, with passion like that, I'd be your inamorata. Minus the sex, of course; devotion's just fine without it. Aug 13, 2008
super-logos My inamorata loves me,
and I love her.
Our sex is the best around.
I'll die should she leave,
Her sweet scent I will grieve,
I'll be forced to find a new town.
Aug 13, 2008