love

Plural: loves

Noun

• a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
  • "his love for his work"
  • "children need a lot of love"
• any object of warm affection or devotion
  • "the theater was her first love"
• a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
• a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
  • "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"
  • "she was his first love"
• a score of zero in tennis or squash
  • "it was 40 love"
• sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
  • "his lovemaking disgusted her"
  • "he hadn't had any love in months"
  • "he has a very complicated love life"
• A deep caring for the existence of another.
• Strong affection.
• A profound and caring affection towards someone.
• Strong affection.
• Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
• Strong affection.
• A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
• Strong affection.
• A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
• A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
• A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
• A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
• Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
• Sexual activity.
• An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
• Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
• Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
• A thin silk material.
• A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
• Zero, no score.
• Nothing; no recompense.

Verb

Verb Forms: loved, loving, loves

• To feel great affection or strong liking for someone or something.
• have a great affection or liking for
  • "I love French food"
  • "She loves her boss and works hard for him"
• get pleasure from
  • "I love cooking"
• be enamored or in love with
  • "She loves her husband deeply"
• have sexual intercourse with
• To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
• To need, thrive on.
• To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
• To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
• To derive delight from a fact or situation.
• Synonym of heart (verb).
• To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
• Alternative form of lofe (“to praise, sell”).

Examples

• A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
• Hello love, how can I help you?
• I have never been in love as much as I have with you.
• I LOVE finding unexpected seven-letter words on my Words With Friends rack.
• I love my spouse. I love you! I love that song!
• I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
• I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair
• I wish I could love her all night long.
• Mold loves moist, dark places.
• My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.
• My love for Melca is eternal.
• My love of cricket knows no bounds.
• She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
• So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.

Synonyms

bang, be intimate, bed, beloved, bonk, dear, dearest, do it, eff, enjoy, erotic love, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, honey, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love life, lovemaking, make love, make out, making love, passion, roll in the hay, screw, sexual love, sleep together, sleep with, Netflix and chill, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, Wearside), action, adore, aphrodisia, ass, babber, babe, baby, babycakes, bae, barney-mugging, beef injection, bonking, boom-boom, bubba, bully, buttercup, cabbage, care for, carnal knowledge, carnality, cherish, chesterfield rugby, chickabiddy, chickadee, chuck, cling to, coition, coitus, colt's tooth, commerce, commixtion, concupiscence, congress, conjunction, connection, consummation, conversation, copulate with, copulation, coupling, cuntfuck, cupcake, cutie, dag, darling, dear heart, dearie, dearling, dialectal (chiefly Geordie, doll, doodlebug, dote, dove, duck, ducky, dumpling, fam, fancy, fooling about, fooling around, frig, fucking, fucky-fucky, funny business, go to bed with, hanky-panky, heart, heartface, heartling, heartmate, hinny, hon, honey bun, honeybug, honeybunch, honeybunny, honeycakes, honeypie, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, hot beef injection, how's your father, humpa humpa, informal or poetic), intercourse, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, jewel, jig-jig, jiggery-pokery, jiggy-jiggy, jo, joining, kidder, lambchop, lambkin, lass (archaic except UK, lay, lech, legover, liefling, little one, love, lovebug, loveling, lover, lovey, lovie, lust, lustmaking, luvvy, m'dear, making whoopee, marital embrace, mate, mating, meat injection, miting, monkey business, moppet, mopsy, mounting, mouse, muffin, muss, nookie, old bean, old hat, old sport, pally, pareunia, penetration, pet, petal, physical love, pipe, playing around, plough, plow, poon, poontang, poppet, pride, pug, pumpkin, punani, pussums, pussy, relations, ride, romance, root, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, sausage, schnookums, screwing, seeing-to, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, sexy time, sexy times, shag, shug, skin, snicklefritz, snookums, snu snu, snuggums, squishy, sug, sugar, sugar baby, sugar beet, sugar-plum, sugarpie, sweet pea, sweetcheeks, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetie pie, sweetling, sweets, swiving, tang, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, the hots, treasure, trim, union, urge to merge, woobie

Antonyms

hate, angst, despise, fear, hatred, indifference

Related Words

charity, fall in love, lov, luv, revere, wuv