Loving

Word LOVING
Character 6
Hyphenation lov ing
Pronunciations /ˈlʌvɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Loving"

What do we mean by loving?

Feeling love; affectionate. adjective

Indicative of or exhibiting love. adjective

Feeling love or tender regard; affectionate: as, a loving friend.

Expressing or manifesting love or kindness: as, loving words; a loving caress.

Praise; honor. noun

Affectionate. adjective

Expressing love or kindness. adjective

The action of the verb to love. noun

Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate. adjective

Present participle of love. verb

Feeling or showing love and affection adjective

(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

To need, thrive on.

To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

To derive delight from a fact or situation.

To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Loving

The word "loving" in example sentences

"Nay, do not blame him; he cannot help _not_ loving me, no more than I can help _loving_ him." ❋ Mrs. Inchbald (1787)

I agree that I prefer people keep the lyrics when it's about loving a person - like if the song was about * loving* a man, I would prefer he sing it from the perspective of a gay man or a woman, rather than change the lyric. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Four-year-old Ian was adopted at birth by Dan Gallagher and Peter Shearer, homosexuals who have lived together in what they describe as a loving relationship for 14 years. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And, yet, in 2008, their label loving world where they live myopically and refuse to think globally has become claustrophobic and beside the point. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You know the disposition which young men and women naturally have to talk, jest, and sport with each other, out of which practice arise often more serious attachments, which they call loving par amours. ❋ Unknown (2008)

CROWLEY (voice-over): An orphan, Tom Vilsack was adopted by what he calls a loving but troubled family: an alcoholic, sometimes abusive mother, a father who struggled in business. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What had been supposed to be letters from our friend are proved forgeries; what we called his loving actions are the accumulated results of the natural law of heredity. ❋ Dowden, Edward (1904)

What she embodies to us is the abstraction which you call the loving-kindness of the Father, revealed in his manifold gifts, wherever we turn our eyes. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

Ruined their own son by what they called loving him ❋ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1733)

I am right there with you in loving Trials and Tibble-ations and The Visitor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What you say about it being difficult to differentiate between this and any memoir that discusses an unpleasant situation between people who were close and loving is exactly how I felt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sadly so many want to feel important that way, when the value they bring to their wife and children by being at home, attentive and loving is so, so much greater. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The woman I have been loving is not you, but another woman in your shape, ❋ Unknown (2010)

Children, raised in loving homes with parents less nervous than my own, fail easily and rarely notice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That I even have to draw together in a written breath the words sexual-child-nurse and sordid-two-men-two-women-loving is ugly and wrong because it just perpetuates the ugliness, it just gives it air to breathe, it just acknowledges that it is there and that fills me with anger, so much anger, and so the cycle of ugliness grinds on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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