Dictionaries:

loving:

1. Affectionate; expressing love ; feeling love .
SYNONYMS: admiring; affectionate; amatory ; amiable ; amorous ; appreciative; ardent; caring; concerned; considerate; cordial; devoted; doting; earnest; erotic ; fervent ; fond; friendly ; generous; impassioned ; kind; liking; passionate ; respecting; reverent; reverential; romantic; sentimental; solicitous; tender; thoughtful; valuing; warm; warm-hearted; worshipful; zealous.

2. Painstaking.


See Also: 6-2-9, 6-to-9, a soft spot for, a2m, Abélard, Abigail, ablaze, ache for, acousticophilia, act, adamite, adore, adulate, adventure, affair of love, affair of the heart, affaire d'amour, affaire de coeur, affection, affenliebe, aflutter over, Afrodite, agape, agapemone, agapism, ailurophile, aischrolatreia, algolagnia, all aflutter over, all aquiver over, all for, all fussed up, all hot and bothered, all shaky-shivery, alloeroticism, aloha, Amantium irae, amoris integratio est, Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur, amative, amatorial, amatory, amatory pleasures, ambivalence, amor, amor lesbicus, amor sui, Amor vincit omnia, amoretto, amorist, amorous, amorous rites, amour, amour fou, amour propre, amour socratique, amourette, amphiphilia, amphisexual, anal beads, anal coitus, anal intercourse, anal-genital intercourse, anaphrodisia, anaphroditic, androphilia, Angus, animal sex, anogenital intercourse, aphrodism, Aphrodite, apple of one's eye, arm, Ars Amandi, arse over teakettle, arse over tit, arsey-versey, Ashtoreth, ass over head, ass-to-mouth, Astarte, Athor, attachment, auntie queen, Aut amat aut odit: nil est tertium, autophilia, babe lair, babyolatry, bad, bad girl, bagels, ballad bar, bar handles, baroselgia, bastard, battle of the sexes, batty, batty about, bauble, bawble, be captivated by, be crazy about, be cuckoo over, be enchanted by, be fascinated by, be gone on, be gooey about, be goofy about, be hot for, be infatuated with, be mad about, be mooney for, be nuts about, be smitten with, be soft on, be stuck on, be sweet on, be swept off one's feet, be taken with, be turned on by, be wacky about, be your own best friend, beat of one's heart, beating fantasies, beaver trap, beguin, beloved, besotted, better half, big love, billet-doux, billy-doo, bird's nest, Bitchville, bitten, bitten by the love bug, blind love, blue balls, blueballs, bohemian, Bohemian love, BOLTOP, bon vivant, boots and shoes fetish, box the compass, break out in a rash over, broadway broads, brothel, brotherly love, bumper-to-bumper, burdock, burn up over, bury the hobbit, buttfuck buddy, buttock jig, calf love, callicacia, Camille, canonize, Canticle of Canticles, canyon yodeling, care, care for someone in a big way, caress, caritas, carry a torch, carry flaming embers for, carry off one's feet, carry on, carry the torch, carrying a torch, case, case of spoons, a, catch on fire, catch someone's eye, cause of causes, cave man, chase the brown clown around the town, chastity, chemistry, Chirambault-Kandinsky syndrome, clam jousting, click, click right off the bat, clit fight, cold sex, con amore, conditional love, contrectophilia, cookies, corner, cotton to, coup de foudre, covet, crab lice, crabs, cracked on, crave, crazy about, cream in one's coffee, crush, cuckoo over, cuddle, cum, cunt, cunt-struck, cupboard love, Cupid, Cupid dances on his/her eyelids, Cupid's sting, Cupids cramp, custard, Cyprian, D-love, dacrylagnia, daft about, dally, darling, darlink, DDW, dead nuts on, dear one, deflower, dendrophilia, dendrophily, dilly-dally, dirty pillows, distillatia, divorce, dizzy over, do me nasty, dollink, dont fight it, its bigger than both of us, Dorian love, Doric love, double butterfly, doughnut to doughnut, drool over, enamor, enamored, envelope, Erato, erogenous, Eros, erotic, erotica, erotogenic, erotology, erotomastia, erotophobe, erotophobia, eternal triangle, eternal wound, the, face-to-face mating, fall for, fall for (someone) in a big way, fall for like a ton of bricks, fall hard for, fall head-over-heels for, fall in a big way, fall in love (with), falsies, fancy, fancy-free, far gone, far gone on, far goner, febris amatoria, feel funny about, feel that funny feeling, feel that way, feeling gay, femme fatale, flat fuck, fling, flip over, flip over for, flirt, flirtation, floozy, fluzie, fond of, fool for, a, for the love of, fore-pleasure, fork and spoon, form an attachment, four-letter word, free love, free lover, French, French art(s), French culture(s), Freya, fuck handles, fuck-in, funny feeling, gaga, Galatea, garden of pleasure, gender, geography, get a heart attack, get a lot of house, glove, go coocoo, go cuckoo, go down on (someone), go for, go for in a big way, go for in a great big way, go for in large helpings, go for plenty, go for with both feet, go ga-ga, go head over heels, go in a big way for, go nuts, go overboard, god of love, gone case, gone on, goo-goo eyes, good-time girl, goodyear (tire), gooey about, gooey over, goofy, goofy about, googly-eyed over, goona(-goona), Gr, gra, grand passion, the, grande passion, great lover, Greek art(s), Greek culture(s), Greek fashion, Greek style, Greek way, greeking, groove on, guy cramps, habit that dare not speak its name, halvsies, hand queen, hand-made, hand-raised, handmade, hanker, hard hit, Hathor, have a beguin for, have a crush on, have a heart attack, have a heart-throb for, have a little death, have a pash on, have a passion for, have a soft spot for, have a thing for, have a yearning for, have a yen for, have affection for, have an itch for, have chemistry, have eyes for, have eyes only for, have fondness for, have hot nuts for, have hot pants for, have it bad, have it hard, have one on the brain, have one's heart doing back flips, have one's heart doing flip-flips, have one's heart flip flop, have one's heart go pitapat, have one's heart go pitter-patter, have that funny feeling, have the heebie-jeebies for, have the hots for, have the miseries, have the tremors, having sex with someone you love, head over heels (in love), heads and tails, heart, heart line, heart's desire, heart's-ease, heart-free, heart-stricken, heart-whole, heartthrob, heaven, heavens above, heck bite, hecklace, heels over head (in love), heteroerotic, hickey, hipsters, hirsutophilia, hold dear, hold in affection, homoamorous, homoerotic, homophilia, homosexual, homosexuality, honey fuck, honeyfuck, honeymoon, honk for, hooked, horny, hot about, hot and bothered, hot for, hot nuts, hot rocks, hubba-hubba, hunger for, hurt for, hyphephilia, idealization, idolize, illegitimate child, in Cock Alley, in deep, in heat over, in love, in love with, in need of, in the throes of (love), in up to the eyes, in up to the gills, in up to the neck, in-lover, inamorata, inamorato, infatuate, infatuated, infatuation, inner sanctum, interspecies sex, Ishtar, Isolde, itch for, jazz baby, jazzed-up jane, jazzy jane, jazzy member, jazzy number, jerk off, juice, Kama, Kama Sutra, keen about, keen on, kid-simple, killer, kiss bite, kiss of peace, kissonyms, korephile, lady lover, languish for, lech after, leman, lemanry, lemons, lesbian sex, letch after, liaison, light of one's eyes, light of one's life, light-o'-love, light-of-love, line of heart, lionize, little death, long for, loop-de-loop, lose one's head over, lose one's heart, lose one's heart to, lose the old head over, lovable, love, love a party, love affair, love all to pieces, love apples, love at first blush, love at first sight, love beads, love cracked, love drink, love emblem, love favor, love feast, love in, love interest, Love is blind, love knot, love lane, love life, love match, love of one's life, the, love philter, love pirate, love potion, love scene, love spuds, love that dare not speak its name, the, love thief, love to party, love's fruits, love-god, love-hate, love-interesting, loveable, loved one, lovee, loveless, lovelorn, lovely, lovemaking, lover, lovesick, lovey-dovey, loving, loving-kindness, luff, lust, lust after, mad about, mad pash, madonna-whore syndrome, make love, make love to, make out, make whoopee, make-out artist, making bishops, making whoopee, mal d'amour, malaxophobia, man, man juice, Marquis de Sade, mash, mash-on, masturbation-female, masturbation-male, melting moments, merry bit, merry legs, minikin, miseries, the, mixoscopia, mixoscopia bestialis, monkey bite, mooky, moon, moon after, moon for, moon over, moon-eyed, moonstruck, moony, moony about, moony for, moony over, morning hard-on, mother, mouthlove, mysteries of love, mysteries of Venus, nanophilia, Narcissus, necking, nerd, nuts about, nuts for, nutty about, nutty over, object of one's affection, Omnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori, on fire over, one and only, one's everything, one's own, one's weakness, onliest, only have eyes for, over head and heels (in love), padded bra, padding, palpitate for, palpitate over, paper kiss(es), Paphian, papillon d'amour, partial to, pash, pashy, passionate love, pediculosis pubis, perpetual emotion, philander, philantropy, philogyny, philophobia, philoprogenetive, philter, pine, pine for, pissed off, pissing someone off, plant a big one, plant one, platonic, Platonic love, platonism, playing hoopsnake, plushie, pod juice, pooch, poofter, post-coital tristesse, prick-juice, prigstar, prostitute, prostitute-versus-madonna syndrome, prostitution, pubic lice, pulse accelerator, pulse upperer, puppy love, Purple Heart, queenie, rapt, rave, ride, roll, romance, romantic affair, roses and raptures, rubber tire, run a temp over, run a temperature, run a temperature over, run after, running a temperature, saddle, Saint Valentine's Day, same sex love, sapphism, sapphistry, sarmassophobia, screw up, secret sorrow, set on, set one's cap for, set one's eyes on, set one's heart on, sex, sex antagonism, sex with someone you love, sexlove, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, shag tags, shaky-shivery, short arm, Si vis amari, ama, sigh after, silly about, single, sizzle for, slushy, small arm, smite, smitten, smitten with, snake pit, soft on, soft spot, softening of the hearters, soixante-neuf, sold on, Song of Solomon, Song of Songs, spark ignited, spermatic juice, spoon, spooney, spooney for, spoony, spoony for, strawberry kiss, struck by lightning, stuck on, suckers, SWAHAAK, SWAK, sweep off one's feet, sweet nothings, sweet on, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetie pie, swept off one's feet, T.L.C., tabanca, tail juice, take a fall, take a fancy to, take a shine to, take the fall, take the old fall, take to, taken with, tantaleur, tantaleuse, tea, tenth word in a telegram, thanatophilia, that certain gleam in one's eyes, that funny feeling, that way, that way about, that way over, thermometing, think the world of, thirst for, this way and that way, three-penny upright, three-penny uprighter, throw oneself at, tits and zits, TLC, tootsie-wootsie, tootsy-wootsy, top-diver, torch, torch carrier, torch song, torching, torching for, torchy, totally stuck on, triangle, Tristan, true love, truelove, truelove knot, truelover's knot, tube-steak, tube-steak of love, turn (someone's) head, turned on by, twirl, U-haul, unspoken language (of love), up to one's ears in love, up to the ears in love, uranian, uranist, vaginal secretions, valentine, veedle-dee-doo, velcro triangle, venereal, venery, Venus, Venus observa feminae, Venus vulgivaga, virgin, voomish, vow, wacky about, wand of love, wargasm, weaker sex, wet noodle, whales on, whoopee, whoreson, wife, wild about, win, win over, woo, woo-poo, worship, wrecktangle, yearn for, yen, yes, yodel, yodel in the canyon (of love), yodel up in the canyon (of love), yodeler, yodeling in the canyon (of love), zoophilia, zoophilia erotica, zoophilist

Quotes Containing loving:
Fun-loving Flicienne (Eva Gabor) explains how she came to take a champagne bath with a Duke in A New Kind of Love (1963): 'How could I say no when it's so much easier to say yes?'
Dr. Seward (Harvey Korman) about the lunatic Renfield in Dracula. Dead and Loving It (1995): ''Give him an enema and then put him in a straightjacket. No! Wait! Put him in a straightjacket first , then give him an enema .'' Later he calls it : ''Give him a you-know-what .''
Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O''Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939): ''I love you Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us. I love you because we''re alike, bad lots the both of us, selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names. (...) Scarlett! Look at me. I''ve loved you more than I''ve ever loved any woman and I''ve waited longer for you than I''ve ever waited for any woman . (...) Here''s a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You''re a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me, kiss me, once.''
Sonja (Diane Keaton) to young Natasha (Jessica Harper) in Love and Death (1975): 'Natasha, to love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love . But then one suffers from not loving . Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love . To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love , or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down .'
Captain Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939): 'I love you Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us. I love you because we're alike, bad lots the both of us, selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names. Scarlett! Look at me. I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman . Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You're a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me, kiss me, once.'


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