Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Feeling love; affectionate.
- adj. Indicative of or exhibiting love.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Feeling love or tender regard; affectionate: as, a loving friend.
- Expressing or manifesting love or kindness: as, loving words; a loving caress.
- n. Praise; honor.
Wiktionary
- n. The action of the verb to love.
- adj. Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.
- v. present participle of love.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Affectionate.
- adj. Expressing love or kindness.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeling or showing love and affection
Examples
“Nay, do not blame him; he cannot help _not_ loving me, no more than I can help _loving_ him.”
“I agree that I prefer people keep the lyrics when it's about loving a person - like if the song was about * loving* a man, I would prefer he sing it from the perspective of a gay man or a woman, rather than change the lyric.”
“Four-year-old Ian was adopted at birth by Dan Gallagher and Peter Shearer, homosexuals who have lived together in what they describe as a loving relationship for 14 years.”
Voice of America: Gay Marriage Fight Sparks US Debate Over Meaning of Marriage
“And, yet, in 2008, their label loving world where they live myopically and refuse to think globally has become claustrophobic and beside the point.”
“You know the disposition which young men and women naturally have to talk, jest, and sport with each other, out of which practice arise often more serious attachments, which they call loving par amours.”
“CROWLEY (voice-over): An orphan, Tom Vilsack was adopted by what he calls a loving but troubled family: an alcoholic, sometimes abusive mother, a father who struggled in business.”
“What had been supposed to be letters from our friend are proved forgeries; what we called his loving actions are the accumulated results of the natural law of heredity.”
“What she embodies to us is the abstraction which you call the loving-kindness of the Father, revealed in his manifold gifts, wherever we turn our eyes.”
“Ruined their own son by what they called loving him”
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
“That I even have to draw together in a written breath the words sexual-child-nurse and sordid-two-men-two-women-loving is ugly and wrong because it just perpetuates the ugliness, it just gives it air to breathe, it just acknowledges that it is there and that fills me with anger, so much anger, and so the cycle of ugliness grinds on.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘loving’.
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)another, three, place, work, eyes, new, said, give, face, day, going, like and 388 more...
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love phrases/words
how love is used
love work, love word, love-wildered, love-whispering, love visit, love verse, love veil, love-trick, love triangle, love tree, love-toy, love-touched and 273 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...grow, greatest country, greatest, grow the economy, great nation, great decisions, great, government, great NATIONAL su..., good times, good job, good and generous... and 751 more...
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RBC: Adjectives for Henry's Ma
Our class list of adjectives for Henry's Ma.
determined, cautious, disappointed, uncertain, wise, stubborn, passionate, unsupportive, forgiving, firm, honest, dishonest and 36 more...
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Words for Literary Erotica
A selection of words for the genre, Literary Erotica.
erotica, love, sex, heterosexual..., heterotica, romantic, romance..., humanism, humans, fiction, short st..., sexuality, vanill..., desire, longing, ..., husband, wife, lo..., men, women and 14 more...
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classic695's Words
delighted, elated, energetic, excited, enthusiastic, elevated, happy, contented, fine, pleased, satisfied, compassionate and 168 more...
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Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 more...
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Wordie Working Overtime - some words ...
Some words of from XTC songs that I like or for some reason stand out. That and a dollar will get you a ride on the bus.
transistor, impaled, settee, sunspecs, neon, meccanic, infatuation, greenhouse, capers, consequence, excepted, helicopter and 112 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Expressions
(Facial)
pained, pitiful, reproachful, annoyed, dismissive, excited, eager, spiteful, contemptuous, passive, calm, nervous and 155 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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Interesting New Mexico Place Names
This list is a blatant rip-off, and I don't care. :-P I fudged a bit, including names of some ghost towns that may or may not still exist. Because ghost towns are freakin' awesome.
tucumcari, angel fire, villanueva, white sands, cuba, moriarty, mountainair, jemez, loving, chimayó, hatch, shiprock and 100 more...
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Alphabet Soup (?): Round 1
Congratulations to uselessness who, in no uncertain terms, sent this moderator back to school.
vile, lively, livery, live, liver, virile, virgil, villain, vilify, evil, vigilante, ventilation and 45 more...
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identity
daughter, sister, girlfriend, student, passionate, pragmatic, outspoken, shy, fashionista, kind, stubborn, honest and 7 more...
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Celebrating the Boys
honors student, fun, great student, basketball, great friends, son, brother, natural athlete, gifted athletes, pride in school, enjoyed all oppor..., chose to play and 5 more...
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flyrobynfly's Words
timer, word, curator, limited, what, love, torture, speed, compassion, terror, romance, seed and 55 more...
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