English > loving: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Feeling or showing love and affection. |
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| Examples | - "loving parents"
- "loving glances"
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| Narrower | adoring, doting, fond | Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent |
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| affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender | Having or displaying warmth or affection |
| amative, amorous | Inclined toward or displaying love |
| amatory, amorous, romantic | expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance |
| attached | Fond and affectionate |
| captivated, charmed | strongly attracted |
| enamored, infatuated, in love, potty, smitten, soft on, taken with | marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness |
| idolatrous | blindly or excessively devoted or adoring |
| loverlike, loverly | like or in the manner of a lover |
| overfond | excessively fond |
| tenderhearted | easily moved to love |
| touchy-feely | (often derogatory) openly expressing love / love and affection (especially through physical contact) |
| uxorious | foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife |
| See also | attached, committed | associated in an exclusive / exclusive sexual relationship |
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| lovable, loveable | Having characteristics / characteristics that attract love or affection |
| passionate | Having or expressing strong emotions |
| warmhearted | marked by warmth of feeling like kindness and sympathy / sympathy / sympathy and generosity / generosity |
| Opposite | unloving | not giving or reciprocating affection |
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| Spanish | afectuoso, amoroso, cariñoso |
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| Catalan | afectuós, amorós |
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| Nouns | lovingness | a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love |
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| lovingness | a loving feeling |
| Adverbs | lovingly | with fondness |
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