Word related with love

Below is a massive list of love words — that is, words related to love. The top 4 are: lover, passion, beloved and adore. You can get the definition(s) of a word in the list below by tapping the question-mark icon next to it. The words at the top of the list are the ones most associated with love, and as you go down the relatedness becomes more slight. By default, the words are sorted by relevance/relatedness, but you can also get the most common love terms by using the menu below, and there’s also the option to sort the words alphabetically so you can get love words starting with a particular letter. You can also filter the word list so it only shows words that are also related to another word of your choosing. So for example, you could enter «lover» and click «filter», and it’d give you words that are related to love and lover.

You can highlight the terms by the frequency with which they occur in the written English language using the menu below. The frequency data is extracted from the English Wikipedia corpus, and updated regularly. If you just care about the words’ direct semantic similarity to love, then there’s probably no need for this.

There are already a bunch of websites on the net that help you find synonyms for various words, but only a handful that help you find related, or even loosely associated words. So although you might see some synonyms of love in the list below, many of the words below will have other relationships with love — you could see a word with the exact opposite meaning in the word list, for example. So it’s the sort of list that would be useful for helping you build a love vocabulary list, or just a general love word list for whatever purpose, but it’s not necessarily going to be useful if you’re looking for words that mean the same thing as love (though it still might be handy for that).

If you’re looking for names related to love (e.g. business names, or pet names), this page might help you come up with ideas. The results below obviously aren’t all going to be applicable for the actual name of your pet/blog/startup/etc., but hopefully they get your mind working and help you see the links between various concepts. If your pet/blog/etc. has something to do with love, then it’s obviously a good idea to use concepts or words to do with love.

If you don’t find what you’re looking for in the list below, or if there’s some sort of bug and it’s not displaying love related words, please send me feedback using this page. Thanks for using the site — I hope it is useful to you! 🐳

That’s about all the love related words we’ve got! I hope this list of love terms was useful to you in some way or another. The words down here at the bottom of the list will be in some way associated with love, but perhaps tenuously (if you’ve currenly got it sorted by relevance, that is). If you have any feedback for the site, please share it here, but please note this is only a hobby project, so I may not be able to make regular updates to the site. Have a nice day! 🐺

  • affection
  • appreciation
  • devotion
  • emotion
  • fondness
  • friendship
  • infatuation
  • lust
  • passion
  • respect
  • tenderness
  • yearning
  • adulation
  • allegiance
  • amity
  • amorousness
  • amour
  • ardor
  • attachment
  • case
  • cherishing
  • crush
  • delight
  • devotedness
  • enchantment
  • enjoyment
  • fervor
  • fidelity
  • flame
  • hankering
  • idolatry
  • inclination
  • involvement
  • like
  • partiality
  • piety
  • rapture
  • regard
  • relish
  • sentiment
  • weakness
  • worship
  • zeal
  • ardency
  • mad for
  • soft spot
  • lover
  • passion
  • admirer
  • angel
  • beau
  • beloved
  • boyfriend
  • darling
  • dear
  • dearest
  • flame
  • girlfriend
  • honey
  • inamorata
  • inamorato
  • paramour
  • Romeo
  • spark
  • suitor
  • swain
  • sweet
  • sweetheart
  • truelove
  • valentine
  • courter
  • dear one
  • Juliet
  • loved one
  • admire
  • care for
  • cherish
  • choose
  • go for
  • prefer
  • prize
  • treasure
  • worship
  • adulate
  • canonize
  • deify
  • esteem
  • exalt
  • fancy
  • glorify
  • idolize
  • venerate
  • be attached to
  • be captivated by
  • be crazy about
  • be enamored of
  • be enchanted by
  • be fascinated with
  • be fond of
  • be in love with
  • delight in
  • dote on
  • fall for
  • gone on
  • have affection for
  • have it bad
  • hold dear
  • hold high
  • long for
  • lose one’s heart to
  • put on pedestal
  • think the world of
  • thrive with
  • wild for
  • embrace
  • feel
  • kiss
  • caress
  • clasp
  • cling
  • cosset
  • court
  • cuddle
  • fondle
  • hold
  • hug
  • lick
  • neck
  • pet
  • press
  • shine
  • soothe
  • stroke
  • tryst
  • woo
  • draw close
  • look tenderly
  • make love
  • take into one’s arms

On this page you’ll find 294 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to love, such as: affection, appreciation, devotion, emotion, fondness, and friendship.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is another word for love?

Where do we begin? Love is often classified and categorized in terms of what type of relationship is being discussed, such as with terms like romantic love and platonic love, or with fancier words like eros or agape.

People who love each other romantically are said to be in love. Instantaneous love is called love at first sight.

Love is often described in terms of how serious or deep it is, as in terms like true love and unconditional love, or whether it’s reciprocated, as in unrequited love.

Synonyms for love that can imply varying levels of intensity or intimacy include fondness, affection, devotion, and adoration.

Love is also used as a noun in the sense of a person you love or have loved romantically, as in She was my first love or It’s a story of two loves reunited. The word lover is sometimes used in the same way, but this typically implies a sexual relationship. The word love is also often used in the context of sex in euphemisms like make love.

In more general contexts, we call the people we love loved ones. You might call someone my love as a term of endearment, much like my dear or my darling. Someone who is well loved is often described as beloved.

As a verb, there are a few synonyms that are sometimes used for love, such as adore, admire, cherish, and even treasure. But many words don’t really capture the fullness and depth of what love can mean.

For that, we usually look to the poets.

Among the wisest said that Love is a battlefield. Others have said that Love is all you need (all you need is love). If you’ve been to a lot of weddings, you’ve heard that love is patient, love is kindlove never fails. Shakespeare didn’t say that Love is a many splendored thing, but he did say that Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Love is a lot of things. Love is a four-letter word. LOVE is a sculpture in Philadelphia (the city of brotherly love—not to be confused with the other City of Love). In tennis, love is nothing. In life, love is everything.

Some people see love as a feeling, an emotion. Others see it as an action. In this sense, perhaps the closest synonym for love is work. That’s what’s meant when it’s said that Love is a verb—love is a doing word.

Sometimes, there’s no other word for it, no better way to say it: love is love.

What is a stronger word for love?

    • despise
    • dislike
    • hate
    • not care
    • castigate
    • condemn
    • criticize
    • debase
    • degrade
    • humiliate
    • lower
    • mock
    • abstain
    • scorn
    • ignore
    • let go
    • push away
    • release
    • abstain

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    WORDS RELATED TO LOVE

    • account
    • adoration
    • affection
    • applause
    • appreciation
    • approbation
    • approval
    • deference
    • delight
    • esteem
    • estimation
    • favor
    • fondness
    • glorification
    • homage
    • honor
    • idolatry
    • idolization
    • liking
    • love
    • marveling
    • obeisance
    • pleasure
    • praise
    • prizing
    • recognition
    • regard
    • reverence
    • valuing
    • veneration
    • wonder
    • wonderment
    • worship
    • affaire
    • amour
    • carrying-on
    • extracurricular activity
    • fling
    • goings-on
    • hanky-panky
    • intimacy
    • intrigue
    • liaison
    • love
    • playing around
    • relationship
    • rendezvous
    • romance
    • thing together
    • two-timing
    • amore
    • ardor
    • attachment
    • care
    • case
    • closeness
    • concern
    • crush
    • desire
    • devotion
    • emotion
    • endearment
    • feeling
    • friendliness
    • friendship
    • good will
    • hankering
    • heart
    • inclination
    • itch
    • kindness
    • liking
    • love
    • passion
    • predilection
    • propensity
    • puppy love
    • regard
    • sentiment
    • shine
    • soft spot
    • solicitude
    • tenderness
    • warmth
    • weakness
    • yen
    • affection
    • farewell
    • goodbye
    • hello
    • love
    • salutation
    • appetite
    • ardor
    • aspiration
    • avidity
    • craving
    • desire
    • drive
    • eagerness
    • earnestness
    • emulation
    • energy
    • enterprise
    • enthusiasm
    • fire in belly
    • get up and go
    • hankering
    • hope
    • hunger
    • initiative
    • itch
    • keenness
    • longing
    • love
    • lust
    • moxie
    • passion
    • pretension
    • push
    • right stuff
    • spirit
    • striving
    • thirst
    • vigor
    • yearning
    • zeal
    • appetites
    • ardors
    • aspirations
    • avidities
    • cravings
    • desires
    • drives
    • eagerness
    • earnestness
    • emulations
    • energies
    • enterprises
    • enthusiasms
    • fire in bellies
    • get up and gos
    • hankerings
    • hopes
    • hunger
    • initiatives
    • itches
    • keenness
    • longings
    • loves
    • lust
    • moxies
    • passions
    • pretensions
    • pushes
    • right stuffs
    • spirits
    • strivings
    • thirsts
    • vigor
    • yearnings
    • zeal

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    1

    as in to value

    to hold dear

    patriots who loved their country well enough to die for it


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    2

    as in to adore

    to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for

    a husband who loves his wife more than anything


    Antonyms & Near Antonyms

    3

    as in to enjoy

    to take pleasure in

    I love playing Frisbee in the summer rain


    Antonyms & Near Antonyms

    4

    as in to caress

    to touch or handle in a tender or loving manner

    the baby responded to my caresses and kisses by loving me right back

    1

    as in affection

    a feeling of strong or constant regard for and dedication to someone

    her love for her children was truly selfless


    Antonyms & Near Antonyms

    2

    as in darling

    a person with whom one is in love

    she is the love of my life

    3

    as in like

    positive regard for something

    a love of chocolate, which I will pay anything to indulge


    Antonyms & Near Antonyms

    4

    as in fling

    a brief romantic relationship

    he refused to discuss past loves

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    “Love.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/love. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.

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    Helene d’Orleans, Princess, love affair of Duke of Clarence and.

    Thrackles had a number of volumes of very cheap love stories.

    Noone really likes to show a really lukewarm love letter.

    But the lovesongs of the ouzels and the lovelooks of the daisies gradually reassure us, and manifest the warm fountain humanity that pervades the coldest and most solitary of them all.

    When lovemaking is wholly scientific, then domestic service will be.

    In his Poetria, John of Garland explains allegorically an «elegiac, bucolic, ethic, love poem« which he quotes.

    We find insolent defiances, magnificent duels, enchanted castles, tender lovescenes, mysterious talismans.

    Love story magazine.

    Then Madeleine, whose chestnut tresses were tinged with gleaming gold, and who was slimmer than her sister, and of a more dreamy style of beauty, her character and disposition refined by her musical tastes, made a love match which was quite a romance.

    Perfect humanity, verging upon, but never entering the breathless region of the Divinity, is the real subject of all true lovepoetry; but in all lovepoetry hitherto, an «ideal« and not a reality has been the subject, more or less.

    There may be a few stern desks that are so cluttered with pricesheets and stocklists that they cannot offer harborage to a love tale.

    Thus, it appears that flowers were once worn by the betrothed as tokens of their engagement, and Quarles in his «Sheapheard‘s Oracles,« 1646, tells us how, «Lovesick swains Compose rushrings and myrtleberry chains, And stuck with glorious kingcups, and their bonnets Adorn’d with laurell slips, chaunt their love sonnets.

    Understanding that he was resorted to by such as have need of philters and lovepotions, or are incommoded by the longevity of parents and uncles, I was about to have him arrested, when I received a report which gave me pause.

    « «I will answer you in the words of one who for years has lived the lovelife,« said Mrs. Everidge.

    she sighed, «love hath come into mine heart even as it came to thee, when I recked not of it.

    Next, he who serves up for us our religion every once a week in the form of sanctimonious speeches on the subject of political economy, will let his congregation go behind Plymouth Pulpit for the purpose of getting their queues for the next Sunday lovefeast by observing his.

    Then, again, flowers, from their connection with certain festivals, have been consulted in love matters, and elsewhere we have alluded to the knowledge they have long been supposed to give in dreams, after the performance of certain incantations.

    Browne alludes to the primrose, which «maidens as a truelove in their bosoms place;« and in the North of England the kemps or spikes of the ribwort plantain are used as lovecharms.

    Thou hast shamed me oft, yet for all thy bitter scorns I do forgive thee, aye, even the anguish of my breaking heart, for that my love doth rise beyond my pain; and so, dear my lordfare thee well!«

    But the patrician mother was with difficulty brought to listen to the tying of this loveknot.

    Violet eyes replete only with love lights!

    The love lyrics of the poet, the magic of the emotions of Shelley and Poe, for instance, with their marvelous music and exquisite intonings of feeling, furnish us with important information.

    Gyp had been herself a lovechild, and the knowledge of this is shown very clearly in its influence upon their mutual attitude.

    I remembered what he had said too well to spend much time in lovedreams; but my happiest moments were when I was alone, and could think of him, read his letters, look at his picture, and fancy the joyfulness of his return.

    Guevara, for some misconduct, had been ordered by the admiral to leave the island, but instead of obeying he had made his way to Xaragua, and caused trouble by this love passage, for he had a rival in Roldan himself, who ordered him to desist from the pursuit of the daughter of Anacaona, and to return to Santo Domingo.

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