Love

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English

Noun

Love (countable and uncountable; plural Loves)
  1. (uncountable) An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person.
    A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
  2. (uncountable) A deep or abiding liking for something.
    My love of cricket knows no bounds.
  3. (uncountable) A profound and caring attraction towards someone.
    Your love is the most important thing in my life.
  4. (countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart
    I met my love by the gasworks wall.
  5. (colloquial) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
    Hello, love, how can I help you?

Notes

  • Adjectives often applied to "love": true, romantic, sexual, physical, maternal, brotherly, sisterly, deep, faithful, disappointed, mystical, everlasting, crazy, homosexual, lesbian.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Verb

Love (third-person singular simple present Loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

  1. (transitive) To have a strong affection for.
    I love my spouse.
    I love you.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
      "I know how difficult your position is," I said; "but don't feel that you are alone. There is--is one here who--who would do anything in the world for you," I ended lamely. She did not withdraw her hand, and she looked up into my face with tears on her cheeks and I read in her eyes the thanks her lips could not voice. Then she looked away across the weird moonlit landscape and sighed. Evidently her new-found philosophy had tumbled about her ears, for she was seemingly taking herself seriously. I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
  2. (transitive) To need, thrive on.
    Mold loves moist, dark places.
  3. (transitive, colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
    I love walking barefoot on wet grass.
    I'd love to join the team.
    I love what you've done with your hair.
  4. (transitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to.
    "You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Matt. 22:37-38)
  5. (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
    I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
  6. (transitive) To lust for.
  7. (transitive, euphemisms) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)
    I wish I could love her all night long.
Antonyms

Noun

Love (uncountable)
  1. (racquet sports) zero, no score.
    So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.

Adjectives for Love

abiding; absorbing; abstract; adulterous; all-absorbing; all-discerning; ambitious; animal; animated; approving; ardent; arduous; artless; baffled; barbaric; barefaced; beholding; betrayed; bleeding; blissful; boundless; bounteous; brave; brittle; brotherly; burning; calculating; casual; celestial; changeful; changeless; changing; chasing; childlike; chastising; chivalrous; clandestine; condemned; coerced; comely; common; comprehensive; condescending; confessed; confiding; connubial; consanguine; consenting; consoling; condemned; conventional; corrupt; costly; courtly; cunning; cutting; dear; deathless; debasing; debatable; deep-buried; deepening; deep-rooted; deep-seeing; depraved; descending; despised; despiteful; dire; disgusting; distilling; divine; domestic; duteous; earnest; earthly; eloquent, embittered; emblematic; endearing; enduring; enlightened; ennobl-nameless; nascent; newborn; never-wearying; new-found; noble; noiseless; obdurate; obscure; obsequious; one-sided; overmastering; painful; palsied; paltry; pardonable; parental; passionate; pathetic; perennial; persistent; philosophic; physical; pigeon; platonic; potential; pounding; predominating; proffered; primal; profound; prosperous; protecting; provident; public; puerile; pure; purifying; rational; real; reasonable; reassuring; recovering; redeeming; redoubtable; relenting; remorseful; rending; renouncing; repentant; repudiated; responsive; resurgent; reunited; reverent; romantic; sacrificial; satiated; selfish; self-renouncing; sensual; sensuous; sentimental; sham; shamed; shameless; shining; shy; silent; sin-destroying; sinful; sleepless; spiritual; spontaneous; steadfast; stilled; stimulated; stirring; strong; stupendous; sustaining; sweet; sweet-suggesting; tamed; tender; thankful; thoughtful; thwarted; tragic; tranquil; transient; transparent; true; true-confirmed; trusting; truthful; unalterable; unavailing; unbecoming; unbounded; unchanging; unconquerable; undying; unconscious; unexaggerated; unfashionable; unfathomable; unfocused; unfortunate; universal; unlawful; unmanly; unpro-pitious; unqualified; unquestioned; unrea¬sonable; unregarded; unrelenting; unrequited; unrestful; unreturned; unruly; unsatisfactory; unselfish; unspoken; untaught; unutterable; unvowed; unwed; valiant; vigorous; violent; virtue; virtuous; visionaryvivacious; vivid; wandering; wanton warped; wasted; wasteful; weakening welcoming; well-deserved; well-earned well-known; well-quitted; willing; wilting wonder-filling; wondrous; wonted; worst worthiest; wrenching; wronged; yearning youthful; zealous.

Verbs for Love

abide in—; arm with—; awaken—; cultivate—; enthrone in—; excite—; feign—; fire with—; forsake—; fulfill—; idealize—; inculcate—; instill—; insure—; lavish— upon; overflow with—; overshadow—; pine for—; proffer—; profess—; recapture—; reject—; revive—; ripen into—; scorn—; shatter—; smite with—; strangle—; sublimate—; —anguishes; —burns; —chastens; — dawns upon; —enchains; —endures; —ennobles; —illumines; —inspires; —reigns; — seizes; —smites; —tortures; —vanishes; — wells up; —wounds.

Adverbs for Love

irretrievably; immortally; fondly; passionately; instinctively; engrossingly; disinterestedly; possessively; ardently; inordinately; uniquely; jealously; profoundly; devotedly; virtuously; violently; exquisitely; heroically; exclusively; utterly; unrequited-ly; illicitly; carnally; steadfastly; mawkishly; abstractly; adulterously; arduously; artlessly; boundlessly; blissfully; celestially; casually; clandestinely; connubially; corruptly; deathlessly; debasingly; fantastically; fastidiously; fathomlessly; feigningly; fervently; festeringly; inexpressibly; languidly; masterfully; parentally; philosophically; physically; zealously; platonically; rationally; romantically; sensually; sensuously; spiritually; spontaneously; sustain-ingly; transiently; unfathomably; vigilantly.

Thesaurus

Amor, Aphrodite, Astarte, BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, Cupid, Eros, Freya, Kama, Love, Venus, accord, accordance, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adulate, adulation, affair, affection, affinity, agape, agreement, aim at, allegiance, altruism, amiability, amiableness, amicability, amicableness, amity, amor, amorousness, amour, angel, appreciate, ardency, ardor, attachment, attraction, babe, baby, baby-doll, bang, bask in, be all heart, be desirous of, be fond of, be partial to, be pleased with, beau, beloved, beloved object, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, bent, best love, best regards, best wishes, betrothed, bigheartedness, bonds of harmony, bonk, boyfriend, brotherhood, brotherly love, burn with love, buttercup, cardinal virtues, care, care for, caress, caritas, carnality, cement of friendship, charitableness, charity, cherish, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, choose, coldness, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, compliments, concern, concord, concordance, congeniality, correspondence, cosset, crush, cuddle, dandle, darling, dear, dear one, dearly beloved, deary, deify, delight, delight in, derive pleasure from, desiderate, desire, devoirs, devotion, devour, disposition, do-goodism, doll, dote, dote on, dote upon, duck, duckling, eat up, egards, embrace, emotion, empathy, enjoy, enjoyment, enthusiasm, esprit, esprit de corps, exalt, faith, fancy, favor, fealty, feast on, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, fervor, fiance, fiancee, fidelity, flesh, fleshliness, flower power, fondle, fondness, fortitude, freak out on, frictionlessness, friendliness, friendship, frigidity, fuck, generosity, get high on, girl, giving, gloat over, go for, good vibes, good vibrations, good wishes, goodwill, grace, greatheartedness, greetings, groove on, gust, gusto, guy, happy family, harmony, hate, have deep feelings, have designs on, have eyes for, have it bad, have sex, hold dear, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hope, humanitarianism, hump, identity, idolatry, idolize, impotence, inamorata, inamorato, inclination, indulge in, infatuation, intended, intrigue, justice, kind regards, kindest regards, kindness, kinship, know, lamb, lambkin, largeheartedness, leaning, liaison, libido, light of love, like, like-mindedness, likes, liking, love affair, love of mankind, loved one, lovemaking, lover, loyalty, lust, lust after, luxuriate in, make out, man, mania, marriage, mate, mutuality, natural virtues, neck, neighborlikeness, neighborliness, oneness, partiality, passion, peace, peaceableness, pet, petkins, philanthropism, philanthropy, piety, pleasure, potency, precious, precious heart, predilection, prefer, preference, prize, proclivity, prudence, rapport, rapprochement, rapture, reciprocity, regard, regards, rejoice in, relationship, relish, remembrances, respects, revel in, revere, riot in, romance, savor, screw, sensuality, sentiment, sex drive, sexiness, sexual instinct, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, sharing, sisterhood, smack the lips, snookums, sociability, solicitude, solidarity, sugar, suitor, supernatural virtues, swain, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, swim in, sympathy, symphony, take, take pleasure in, take to, tally, taste, team spirit, temperance, tenderness, theological virtues, thing, treasure, truelove, turtledove, understanding, unhostility, union, unison, unity, utilitarianism, value, venerate, voluptuousness, wallow in, want, warmth, weakness, welfarism, well-affectedness, well-beloved, well-disposedness, wish, wish to goodness, wish very much, woman, worship, would fain do, yearning, young man, zeal

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English lufu (“love, affection, desire”), from Proto-Germanic *lubō (“love”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *leubh- (“love, care, desire”). Cognate with Old Frisian luve (“love”), Old High German luba (“love”). Related to Old English lēof (“dear, beloved”), līefan (“to allow, approve of”), Latin libō, lubō (“to please”). More at lief.

Etymology 2

From the phrase Neither for love nor for money, meaning "nothing".

The previously held belief that it originated from the French term l’œuf (“the egg”), due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted.

Translations

Noun

strong affection
romantic feelings
darling or sweetheart
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  • Greek: αγάπη (agápi) f., έρωτας (érotas) m. (Note: "αγάπη" refers to "pure" love, such as that between a mother and child or even between a non-erotic aspect of the love between a husband and wife, while έρωτας means erotic love, such as that between a girlfriend and boyfriend.)
  • Guaraní: ayhu (t-)
  • Indonesian: cinta (id), kasih (id), sayang (id)
  • Korean: 사랑 (sarang), 연애 (yeon-ae: emphasizes the partnership)

Verb

have a strong affection for
to need, thrive on
be strongly inclined towards doing
to lust for
(euphemistic): to have sex with
care about; will good for
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Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun or verb love

Related terms

See also

Noun

zero

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Anagrams

Czech

Noun

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  1. (slang) money

Danish

Noun

Love c.

  1. plural indefinite of lov

Noun

Love c.

  1. trust, faith

Related terms

Verb

Love (imperative lov, infinitive at love, present tense lover, past tense lovede, past participle har lovet)

  1. praise
  2. promise

Etymology 1

See lov

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɔːvə/, [ˈlɔːwə]

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German lōve.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɔːvə/, [ˈlɔːwə]

Etymology 3

From Old Norse lofa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɔːvə/, [ˈlɔːwə]

Dutch

Verb

Love

  1. singular present subjunctive of loven.

Anagrams

French

Verb

Love

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lover
  2. third-person singular present indicative of lover
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of lover
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of lover
  5. second-person singular imperative of lover

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

Love (plural Loves)

  1. love

Norwegian

Verb

Love

  1. To praise.
  2. To promise.

Etymology

Old Norse lofa

Romani

Noun

love

  1. Plural form of lovo.
  2. money

Descendants

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