loving
/ˈlʌvɪŋ
/adjective
1Feeling or showing love or great care: a loving father the cargo was described in loving detail...
- She knelt down next to me, dried my eyes and gave me a warm, loving hug that made everything all right.
- We both lost our fathers when we were young and were blessed with loving mothers.
- She had grown up in a loving family and knew that love and care were two different words.
Synonyms
affectionate, fond, devoted, adoring, doting, solicitous, demonstrative;
caring, tender, warm, warm-hearted;
amorous, ardent, passionate, lustful, amatory
caring, warm, tender, close-knit, close, supportive, nurturing
informal touchy-feely
1.1 (in combination -loving) Enjoying the specified activity or thing: a fun-loving girl
Derivatives
lovingness
- When I tried with my parents I saw only hatred and anger, and when I tried on Bert, it had showed kindness and lovingness that is always found in close friends.
- There is much evidence of lovingness in the work, particularly in the delightful rendering of the smallest of creatures.
- This wandering visualization captures the sense of family as a unit, an organism unto itself (appropriately, the entire clan smokes out of the same pack of cigarettes), with the lovingness and annoyingness such inseparability entails.
- horror show
- horror-stricken
- horror-struck
- horror vacui
- hors concours
- hors de combat
- hors d'oeuvre
- horse
- horse-and-buggy
- horse around (or about)
- horse artillery
- horseback
- horseback rider
- horseback riding
- horsebean
- horse-block
- horsebox
- horse brass
- horse breeder
- horse chestnut
- horse cloth
- horse collar
- horse-coper
- horse dealer
- horse doctor