English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes
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love
Affection is kindly feeling, deep, tender, and constant, going out to some person or object, being less fervent and ardent than love, whether applied to persons or things. Love is an intense and absorbing emotion, drawing one toward a person or object and causing one to appreciate, delight in, and crave the presence or possession of the person or object loved, and to desire to please and benefit the person, or to advance the cause, truth, or other object of affection; it is the yearning or outgoing of soul toward something that is regarded as excellent, beautiful, or desirable; love may be briefly defined as strong and absorbing affection for and attraction toward a person or object. Love may denote the sublimest and holiest spiritual affection as when we are taught that «God is love.» Charity has so far swung aside from this original meaning that probably it never can be recalled (compare BENEVOLENCE). The Revised Version uses love in place of charity in 1 Cor. xiii, and elsewhere. Love is more intense, absorbing, and tender than friendship, more intense, impulsive, and perhaps passionate than affection; we speak of fervent love, but of deep or tender affection, or of close, firm, strong friendship. Love is used specifically for personal affection between the sexes in the highest sense, the love that normally leads to marriage, and subsists throughout all happy wedded life. Love can never properly denote mere animal passion, which is expressed by such words as appetite, desire, lust. One may properly be said to have love for animals, for inanimate objects, or for abstract qualities that enlist the affections, as we speak of love for a horse or a dog, for mountains, woods, ocean, or of love of nature, and love of virtue. Love of articles of food is better expressed by liking, as love, in its full sense, expresses something spiritual and reciprocal, such as can have no place in connection with objects that minister merely to the senses. Compare ATTACHMENT; FRIENDSHIP.
See synonyms for ANTIPATHY; ENMITY; HATRED.
Synonyms:
affection, attachment, attraction, charity, devotion, fondness, friendship, liking, regard, tendernessPreposition:
Love of country; for humanity; love to God and man.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote
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love
Antonyms:
hatred, dislike, disaffection, alienation, estrangement, bitterness, coldness, indifference, repugnance, infidelity, desertion, unkindness, malice, uncharitablenessSynonyms:
affection, attachment, passion, devotion, benevolence, charity, kindness
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Princeton’s WordNetRate these antonyms:2.7 / 11 votes
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lovenoun
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
«his love for his work»; «children need a lot of love»
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hate, hatred, detestSynonyms:
dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey -
love, passionnoun
any object of warm affection or devotion
«the theater was her first love»; «he has a passion for cock fighting»;
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hate, hatred, detestSynonyms:
erotic love, mania, cacoethes, love life, beloved, passionateness, dearest, passion, warmth, making love, rage, honey, lovemaking, sexual love, dear, heat -
beloved, dear, dearest, honey, lovenoun
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
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hate, hatred, detestSynonyms:
dear, lamb, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey -
love, sexual love, erotic lovenoun
a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
«their love left them indifferent to their surroundings»; «she was his first love»
Antonyms:
hate, hatred, detestSynonyms:
dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey -
lovenoun
a score of zero in tennis or squash
«it was 40 love»
Antonyms:
hate, hatred, detestSynonyms:
dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey -
sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love lifeverb
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»
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hatred, hate, detestSynonyms:
dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey -
loveverb
have a great affection or liking for
«I love French food»; «She loves her boss and works hard for him»
Antonyms:
hate, hatred, detestSynonyms:
jazz, have sex, do it, enjoy, hump, bang, screw, have intercourse, sleep together, bonk, know, roll in the hay, get it on, lie with, have it away, be intimate, eff, have a go at it, get laid, bed, make out, have it off, sleep with, make love -
love, enjoyverb
get pleasure from
«I love cooking»
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hate, hatred, detestSynonyms:
jazz, have sex, do it, enjoy, hump, bang, screw, relish, have intercourse, sleep together, bonk, know, roll in the hay, get it on, lie with, have it away, be intimate, eff, delight, bask, have a go at it, get laid, bed, make out, have it off, savour, savor, sleep with, revel, make love -
loveverb
be enamored or in love with
«She loves her husband deeply»
Antonyms:
hatred, hate, detestSynonyms:
jazz, have sex, do it, enjoy, hump, bang, screw, have intercourse, sleep together, bonk, know, roll in the hay, get it on, lie with, have it away, be intimate, eff, have a go at it, get laid, bed, make out, have it off, sleep with, make love -
sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonkverb
have sexual intercourse with
«This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm»; «Adam knew Eve»; «Were you ever intimate with this man?»
Antonyms:
hatred, hate, detestSynonyms:
spang, discern, bang, screw, acknowledge, recognise, deal, whop, grapple, get along, bop, distinguish, go to sleep, bash, make love, do, jazz, cheat, roll in the hay, sock, cut, be intimate, retire, pick out, live, eff, go to bed, bonk, recognize, spot, hunch over, slam, do it, chicane, have intercourse, hit the sack, make out, manage, jockey, have sex, tell apart, complete, cognise, neck, whap, fill out, fill in, have a go at it, drive in, bed, have it away, sleep with, enjoy, sack out, hit the hay, contend, hunch forward, issue, hump, get laid, have it off, make do, sleep together, get by, write out, turn in, cope, crawl in, chouse, experience, know, come, get it on, kip down, shaft, fare, lie with, cognize, hunch
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lovenoun
Synonyms:
affection, devotion, infatuation, passion, amorousness, amativeness, cupid, eros, venus, aphrodite, amorino, philanthropy, storge
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dislike
i don’t like you
i dislike you which is the opposite of loving you.
Submitted by 517256 on February 25, 2020
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phobianoun
actually, the opposite of phobia is philia, love, but it appears only to be used in combination with another word as in photophobia, photophilia.
one day i suffered from a phobia of men, the next from a philia. blowing cold and hot!
Submitted by jriseman on December 22, 2021
How to use love in a sentence?
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Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case:
People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
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Josh Wilson:
Im not in trouble. Im not in the doghouse, im just in love with my wife.
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Johann von Goethe:
Whenever I hear people talking about ‘liberal ideas,’ I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
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Rosa Iturrizaga:
I don’t know what’s kept me going, i love doing this, but I’m looking at other things to do with the land.
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Alicia Keys:
Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music’s importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It’s the world’s true, true, without question, universal language.
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Antonyms
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Etymology
1. love
verb. [‘ˈlʌv’] have a great affection or liking for.
Etymology
- love (English)
- love (Middle English (1100-1500))
- loven (Middle English (1100-1500))
- lofian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
2. love
noun. [‘ˈlʌv’] a strong positive emotion of regard and affection.
Etymology
- love (English)
- love (Middle English (1100-1500))
- loven (Middle English (1100-1500))
- lofian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
3. love
verb. [‘ˈlʌv’] get pleasure from.
Etymology
- love (English)
- love (Middle English (1100-1500))
- loven (Middle English (1100-1500))
- lofian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
4. love
verb. [‘ˈlʌv’] be enamored or in love with.
Etymology
- love (English)
- love (Middle English (1100-1500))
- loven (Middle English (1100-1500))
- lofian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
5. love
noun. [‘ˈlʌv’] any object of warm affection or devotion; .
Etymology
- love (English)
- love (Middle English (1100-1500))
- loven (Middle English (1100-1500))
- lofian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
6. love
noun. [‘ˈlʌv’] a beloved person; used as terms of endearment.
Etymology
- love (English)
- love (Middle English (1100-1500))
- loven (Middle English (1100-1500))
- lofian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
7. love
noun. [‘ˈlʌv’] a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction.
Etymology
- love (English)
- love (Middle English (1100-1500))
- loven (Middle English (1100-1500))
- lofian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
8. love
noun. [‘ˈlʌv’] a score of zero in tennis or squash.
Etymology
- love (English)
- love (Middle English (1100-1500))
- loven (Middle English (1100-1500))
- lofian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
10. love
verb. [‘ˈlʌv’] have sexual intercourse with.
Etymology
- love (English)
- love (Middle English (1100-1500))
- loven (Middle English (1100-1500))
- lofian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))