amorous
/ˈam(ə)rəs
/adjective
Showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire: she rejected his amorous advances...
- No wonder that he can awaken amorous desires even in those who should know better.
- Enchanted by the warmth of her smile, Brian suddenly felt confused by an unexpected rush of amorous desire.
- US women who initially reject his amorous advances often have a change of heart when they run his name through a search engine.
Synonyms
lustful, sexual, erotic, amatory, ardent;
passionate, impassioned;
romantic;
affectionate, fond, loving, tender, doting;
in love, enamoured, lovesick
informal lovey-dovey, spoony, kissy, smoochy, goo-goo, hot
British informal randy
archaic sportive
Derivatives
amorously
/ adverb ...- If I'm behaving amorously, I've definitely got serious intent in my head.
- We might know Paul as a showman, but there is much more to him than amusing stage shows with people being hypnotised to behave amorously towards a broom or act like a sea lion.
- The film has a young, amoral couple living amorously in Montreal and Toronto, unable to make ends meet.
amorousness
/ noun ...- Upon hearing her voice on my machine, I was torn between amorousness and horror, especially because the growing anger in her voice was astonishing.
- ‘There remained only those rare periods of amorousness, which still came to them at times but did not last long.’
- A fatal disease - tuberculosis, also called consumption - provided a favorite metaphor to represent the destructiveness of feverish emotions, such as pining or amorousness.
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin amorosus, from Latin amor 'love'.
Rhymes
- self-sow
- self-standing
- self-starter
- self-starting
- self-sterile
- self-sterility
- self-stick
- self-stimulation
- self-storage
- self-study
- self-styled
- self-subsistent
- self-sufficiency
- self-sufficient
- self-sufficiently
- self-sufficing
- self-suggestion
- self-support
- self-supporting
- self-surrender
- self-sustained
- self-sustaining
- self-sustenance
- self-system
- self-tailing