Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or inclined toward love, especially sexual love; amorous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of love; amorous; amatory; disposed or disposing to love.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of love; amatory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
love ;amorous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective inclined toward or displaying love
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His form was what phrenologists call amative; and of these facts we have some very curious proofs.
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The waiting was tedious, and having been long denied, the amative element could not brook further delay.
THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010
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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.
Chapter 14 2010
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Mr. Anesko's writes of "thinly veiled homoeroticism" of James's letters to Andersen and elsewhere of their "undeniably amative nature."
The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012
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The waiting was tedious, and having been long denied, the amative element could not brook further delay.
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But situated here he could not go so far as amative cruelty.
The Woodlanders 2006
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Just like the maquiladora plants, the amative establishments that served their employees operated on a twenty-four-hour work schedule.
The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Forty-second Street had been a sort of Hell's Gate, a place for the grotesquely amative intermingling of species.
Gone for Good Coben, Harlan, 1962- 2002
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A similar thing has been seen to take place in those birds that are amative, as partridges and hens.
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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.
The Curse of the Pharaohs Peters, Elizabeth, 1927- 1981
yarb commented on the word amative
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
June 23, 2008
qms commented on the word amative
Affection enables a man to live
He must be engaged and amative.
No one's more forlorn
Than he who must scorn-
The fellow without a damn to give.
March 5, 2016