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amorous

adj
/ˈæ.mə.ɹəs//ˈæ.mɚ.əs/US

Etymology

From Middle English amorous, amerous (14th century), from Old French amoros, amoreus, from Vulgar Latin *amōrōsus, from Latin amor (“love”), related to amāre (“to love”). Compare French amoureux (“in love”). Doublet of amoroso and amoureux.

  1. derived from amor
  2. derived from *amōrōsus✻
  3. derived from amoros
  4. inherited from amorous

Definitions

  1. Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.

    • an amorous disposition
    • We were both feeling amorous so the inevitable happened.

  2. Indicating love or sexual desire.

    • She kept making these amorous suggestions.
    • UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew. And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe, Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: […]
    • Long were to tell the amorous aſſayes, And gentle pangues, with which he maked meeke The mightie Mars, to learne his wanton playes:

  3. Of or relating to, or produced by, love.

    • She read me an amorous poem.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Affected with love

      Affected with love; in love; enamored.

      • He had been amorous of her since schooldays.

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Derived

amorously, amorousness, biamorous, heteroamorous, homoamorous, multiamorous, nonamorous, polyamorous, unamorous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at amorous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at amorous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at amorous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA