Endearing

Word ENDEARING
Character 9
Hyphenation en dear ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Endearing"

What do we mean by endearing?

Inspiring affection or warm sympathy. adjective

Having a tendency to make dear or beloved; awakening affection: as, endearing qualities.

Making dear or beloved; causing love. adjective

Inspiring love or affection, in a childlike way. adjective

Present participle of endear. verb

Lovable especially in a childlike or naive way adjective

To make (something) more precious or valuable.

To make (something) more expensive; to increase the cost of.

To stress (something) as important; to exaggerate.

To make (someone) dear or precious.

A person, place, action or thing that is cute, adorable or loveable. Urban Dictionary

Dream, dreamwastaken, smiley blob, minecraft manhunter, it’s him. he’s the definition of endearing Urban Dictionary

Tommyinnit Urban Dictionary

A term of Endearment is generally a means of expressing affection. The usage of this expression, however, changes significantly from person to person dependent on who the recipient of the endearing is. Urban Dictionary

An endearment is a loving or affectionate word or phrase that you say to someone you love Urban Dictionary

(1) A word or phrase used to address and/or describe a person or animal for which the speaker feels love or affection. A pet name. Often annoying to every one else except the speaker and the person/animal being referred to. Urban Dictionary

A description accorded to people whose behaviour is by normal standards considered weird or unusual, but is nevertheless deemed to be rather cute. The etymology of this word derives from encounters between one biracial bombshell and one tall, lanky American, the latter for which the term awkwardly endearing was coined for. Urban Dictionary

What one becomes after having a crush on an awkwardly endearing individual. Like an STI the curse of being awkwardly endearing can be passed on through even minor contact. Urban Dictionary

A common tactic of an Identity Deficit Disorder sufferer. Akin to the regifting practice made famous by Seinfeld, except not with Christmas presents for ones friends, but with endearing nicknames for ones lovers. The cynical practice of pimp daddies everywhere. Urban Dictionary

A semi-endearment is a phrase used when puzzlement would be an acceptable outcome. It is ok to use a semi-endearment when you know a person well. But a little inappropriate as the semi-endearment can be a bit rude - but quite ok after an explaination. Urban Dictionary

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The word "endearing" in example sentences

My main problem with "endearing" is that I only see it used by adults talking about children (the AHD usage example is "the endearing charm of a little child") and to use it to talk about children's books betrays the child audience. ❋ Roger Sutton (2007)

One of the things I find endearing is when you are taken someplace that makes you feel separate from the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What I find so endearing is that you have a daughter who is so obviously full of love and life and sees nothing wrong with expressing it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Saying that people find suicide endearing is a gross misunderstanding. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Like me, my soulmate has developed a certain endearing reluctance to change out of his sweatpants and leave the house after 5 p.m., and all of those kittenish young Sex and the City gals seem sharply demanding. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Gabriela-Sylvia Zabala and Ismet Redzovic at the WSWS: Anna Kokkinos's first feature Head On - an adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas's novel Loaded, although also heavily relying on 'shock tactics' of explicit sex and drug taking (like the novel itself) - while quite flawed, nonetheless had certain endearing qualities, in particular the treatment of the migrant Greek family life in Melbourne and the difficulties facing the gay son. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Equally endearing is the partnership McDonald has with her 13-year-old chestnut mare, Brentina. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Still, it's an excellent introduction to one of modern SF's more dare I use the phrase endearing characters - unless you're her ever suffering friend Bitsy... ❋ Sbisson (2002)

Not so endearing is Joey’s relationship with a sometimes abusive but sometimes concerned father, which is appropriately complex. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Instead, Sam Champion - not named after an identically-named New York-area weatherman, claims the band - recalls the endearing sloppiness of The Replacements and, yes, The Beatles. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Through the fog of morphia and weakness he played with her and called her endearing names until he sank back into the unconscious. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)

They had sent her large boxes of stale drug-store chocolates, and called her endearing names as they made cautious declaration such as: ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)

"You seem [nervous]..." says girl [with a smile] "Great thats embarasing." [says boy] "Actually I find it quite endearing." She replys ❋ Llellaface (2009)

endearing? [oh you] must be [talking] about [dream] ❋ Itsmeadow (2021)

[tommys] so endearing :( ❋ Gall Has Lots Of Issues (2021)

Among two 'lovers', a term of endearment could be 'honey' or 'sweet heart', whereas among mates this is not appropriate. While among friends, an endearing expression could be something like teasing your mate jokingly (within reason). Example: Among lovers "That dress looks great on you" Examples: Among Friends "[Stuff you] mate, as if you got tickets to the concert!" "Bit of a [clutz] there mate" (If they trip) [and so forth]. ❋ Steve_OH (2011)

[Sometimes] it will be a [term of endearment], [sometimes] a term of [abuse]. ❋ ... Zjdbckdnznsjd (2019)

[Don't hate], it's our term of endearment. ❋ Justiferous (2011)

When a boy offers to buy a girl a cup of coffee out of [gratitude] for her having sent him notes. Although sweet the offer, in saying, "so you can [snuggle] up a little longer in bed in the morning", it is more than [a tad] bit weird. In other words, it is awkwardly endearing. ❋ Voldemort III (2008)

When that individual who at one time attained the ‘biracial bombshell’ status loses her ability to engage in regular social encounters without saying something odd. Examples include multiple references to: Manchester City, graphic novels, the library, [War and Peace], and [timbits]. This awkwardly endearing [master status] cannot be used to account for the recent Distal Radius fracture suffered by this individual. Any such bone-breaking must be attributed to a previously existing clumsiness condition. ❋ Voldemort IV (2008)

Back in High School, whenever I wasn't dating anyone, my best friend Marcus would sometimes kindly invite me out with him on his dates. I started begging off though after a few such get togethers and not just for the obvious reason that this was a kind of weird social practice, but actually mostly because I got sick of seeing how Marcus shamelessly practiced the recycling of endearments like "[sweetums]", "loviekins" and "[babydoll]". Of course the girl of the moment was [none the wiser] to all this. ❋ Russell Clark (2006)

Some examples of a semi-endearment are [gruffalo] or [penny] [pockets]. "oh here comes penny pockets" "here comes the gruffalo" ❋ Professor Of New English (2005)

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