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LOVING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling or showing love and affection
Example:
loving glances
Classified under:
Similar:
adoring; doting; fond (extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent)
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; in love; infatuated; 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 and affection (especially through physical contact))
uxorious (foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife)
Also:
warmhearted (marked by warmth of feeling like kindness and sympathy and generosity)
passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)
lovable; loveable (having characteristics that attract love or affection)
attached; committed (associated in an exclusive sexual relationship)
Antonym:
unloving (not giving or reciprocating affection)
Derivation:
lovingness (a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love)
lovingness (a loving feeling)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb love
Context examples:
The frivolity of the laughter-loving Latins is no part of him.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
She is a sunbeam in my house—sweet, loving, beautiful, a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and gentle as a woman could be.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That he allowed the master these liberties was no reason that he should be a common dog, loving here and loving there, everybody's property for a romp and good time.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The Lady Rochefort, a bright and laughter-loving dame, sat upon the left of her warlike spouse, with Lady Tiphaine upon the right.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
4th, As he walks the said roads, he shall take the utmost care not to trample upon the bodies of any of our loving subjects, their horses, or carriages, nor take any of our subjects into his hands without their own consent.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
What does exist is a great diversity of halophilic archaea (a type of primitive salt-loving microorganism) in the desert and the saline canyons around the hydrothermal site, but neither is found in the hyperacid and hypersaline pools themselves, nor in the so-called Black and Yellow lakes of Dallol, where magnesium abounds.
(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Loving, guiding, protecting her, as he had been doing ever since her being ten years old, her mind in so great a degree formed by his care, and her comfort depending on his kindness, an object to him of such close and peculiar interest, dearer by all his own importance with her than any one else at Mansfield, what was there now to add, but that he should learn to prefer soft light eyes to sparkling dark ones.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
That her sister's affections WERE calm, she dared not deny, though she blushed to acknowledge it; and of the strength of her own, she gave a very striking proof, by still loving and respecting that sister, in spite of this mortifying conviction.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
