What are synonyms for the word love

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. 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, tenderness

   Preposition:
   Love of country; for humanity; love to God and man.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. love

   Synonyms:
   affection, attachment, passion, devotion, benevolence, charity, kindness

   Antonyms:
   hatred, dislike, disaffection, alienation, estrangement, bitterness, coldness, indifference, repugnance, infidelity, desertion, unkindness, malice, uncharitableness

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 11 votes

1. lovenoun

   a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

   «his love for his work»; «children need a lot of love»

   Synonyms:
   dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

2. love, passionnoun

   any object of warm affection or devotion

   «the theater was her first love»; «he has a passion for cock fighting»;

   Synonyms:
   erotic love, mania, cacoethes, love life, beloved, passionateness, dearest, passion, warmth, making love, rage, honey, lovemaking, sexual love, dear, heat

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

3. beloved, dear, dearest, honey, lovenoun

   a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

   Synonyms:
   dear, lamb, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

4. 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»

   Synonyms:
   dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

5. lovenoun

   a score of zero in tennis or squash

   «it was 40 love»

   Synonyms:
   dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

6. 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»

   Synonyms:
   dear, sexual love, erotic love, beloved, dearest, love life, making love, lovemaking, passion, honey

   Antonyms:
   hatred, hate, detest

7. loveverb

   have a great affection or liking for

   «I love French food»; «She loves her boss and works hard for him»

   Synonyms:
   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

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

8. love, enjoyverb

   get pleasure from

   «I love cooking»

   Synonyms:
   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

   Antonyms:
   hate, hatred, detest

9. loveverb

   be enamored or in love with

   «She loves her husband deeply»

   Synonyms:
   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

   Antonyms:
   hatred, hate, detest

10. 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?»

    Synonyms:
    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

    Antonyms:
    hatred, hate, detest

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Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. amory

   from the romance-language amour.

   polyamory: loving multiple others.

   Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019  

2. genipapadverb

   genipap means love.

   i genipap you!

   Submitted by fefewpoop on September 7, 2021  

3. lakshman

   you are a lakshamanan

   Submitted by anonymous on February 17, 2021  

4. wislynoun

   to have great affection towards someone

   wisly is everywhere

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. loveverb

   Synonyms:
   have affection for, regard with affection

2. loveverb

   Synonyms:
   have a passionate affection for, be in love with, be enamoured of

3. loveverb

   Synonyms:
   like, be pleased with

4. loveverb

   Synonyms:
   delight, take pleasure

5. lovenoun

   Synonyms:
   affection, affectionate regard

6. lovenoun

   Synonyms:
   attachment, passionate affection, the tender passion

7. lovenoun

   Synonyms:
   liking, fondness

8. lovenoun

   Synonyms:
   lover, person beloved

9. lovenoun

   Synonyms:
   cupid, god of love

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lovenoun

   Synonyms:
   affection, devotion, infatuation, passion, amorousness, amativeness, cupid, eros, venus, aphrodite, amorino, philanthropy, storge

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for «love»:

   loves, like, likes, amor, ‘amour, iove, adore, amour, loving, romance, sex, oi, adores, amore, loved, affection, iike, ioves, amar, darling, sweetheart, lover, passion, enjoy, christ, liked, iikes, honey, sake, -love

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1. Benjamin Mqxekwa:

   Her Love cuts through my heart so fats that its pain is also enjoyable, that’s how sharp her love is for me (Tshegofatso Mosuwe)

2. Kerry Washington:

   I often go back to this, my final text from him, and smile knowing he always sought the beauty even when it could have been so much easier to give in to the harsh realities of life. He was an angel on this planet and is now a Saint on high. Love you and miss you more than ever… forever.

3. Prem Rawat:

   These eyes can see the world, but they cannot see themselves.
   To see them, you need a mirror.
   You need a mirror to see this true face,
   this true existence, your life; to fall in love.

4. Juliette Scwab:

   September was an extremely busy time for both us with work. So, rather than taking a big trip after our wedding, we decided to take a week off and go to Napa and Sonoma in California doing what we love doing : eating, drinking, and just being together.

5. Hilary Swank:

   It’s wonderful to be back here in Tokyo. It’s such a beautiful city, and I love the people, culture, the food, it’s nice to be part of the Tokyo Film Festival.

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