Amorous

Definitions: Amorous

Amorous

Adjective

1. Inclined toward or displaying love; "feeling amorous".

2. Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride".

Date "amorous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Amorous \Am"o*rous\, adjective. [Old French expression amoros, French amoreux, Late Latin expression amorosus, from the Latin expression amor love, from amare to love.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream you are amorous, warns you against personal desires and pleasures, as they are threatening to engulf you in scandal. For a young woman it portends illicit engagements, unless she chooses staid and moral companions. For a married woman, it foreshadows discontent and desire for pleasure outside the home. To see others amorous, foretells that you will be persuaded to neglect your moral obligations. To see animals thus, denotes you will engage in degrading pleasures with fast men or women. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Amorous (The) Philippe I of France; so called because he divorced his wife Berthe to espouse Bertrade, who was already married to Foulques, count of Anjou. (1061--1108.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Amorous

Synonyms: amative (adj), amatory (adj), romantic (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Endearment	Embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation, deosculation; amorous glances.
Love	Affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous, amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Amorous

English words defined with "amorous": Amoret, Amorosity, amorously ♦ blade ♦ Casanova, court ♦ daphne ♦ Languishment, Love-sick ♦ masher ♦ Oeillade, ogle ♦ philander ♦ Romance, romantic ♦ skirt chaser, Smicker, Smickering, solicit, steam ♦ Wafer woman, wanton, with love, wolf, woman chaser, womanise, womanize, woo. (references)

Specialty definitions using "amorous": Adonis River, Adultery, Amorous ♦ BLANKET HORNPIPE, BUTTOCK BALL ♦ Cooing and Billing ♦ GEORGE ♦ LETCH ♦ MELTING MOMENTS ♦ Passelyon, Perdrix, toujours Perdrix ♦ RIDING ST ♦ TWO HANDED PUT. (references)

Etymologies containing "amorous": Amiable, Amorist, Amorosity ♦ Smickering. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Amorous Accident: A Dog's Eye View of Murder (reference) Amorous Exploits of a Young Rakehell (reference) Amorous Turkeys and Addicted Ducklings: A Search for the Causes of Social Attachment (reference) Classical Love Poetry: An Anthology of Greek and Latin Amorous Verse [UNABRIDGED] (reference) Cupid : The Amorous Arrow (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Amorous Artist (reference) Amorous Lotus Pan (reference) The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Twenty-Four Aspects of an Amorous Nature (reference) Amorous Anathema [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Amative; amatory; amorous; aphrodisiac; bawdy; blue; carnal; concupiscent; dirty; earthy; erogenous; fervid; filthy; fleshly; hot; impassioned; kinky; lascivious; lecherous; lewd; obscene; off-color; purple; prurient; raunchy; raw; romantic; rousing; sala.
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Author	Quotation
Samuel Johnson	Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He was of an amorous humour, but said that for ten years past he had decidedly and entirely renounced women.
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"Amorous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.04% of the time. "Amorous" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.04%	103	32,137
Noun (proper)	0.96%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	104	N/A

Expressions using "amorous": amorous glances ♦ amorous interlude ♦ amorous looks ♦ amorous poetry. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "amorous": over-amorous.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "amorous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		njeri i ranë në dashuri (spoon), dashurues, dashuror (amatory, erotic, inamorato, love). (various references)

Arabic		‏ميال إلى الحب, ‏مفطور على الحب, ‏غرامي (amatory, overwhelming), ‏عاشق (enamored, enamoured, in love, junkie, lover, suitor, swain), ‏عشقي (amatory), ‏شهواني (carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, lustful, luxurious, passionate, randy, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuary, voluptuous, wanton, warm). (various references)

Bulgarian		страстен (eager, enthusiastic, fervent, fierce, gutsy, impassioned, keen, libidinous, lustful, passional, passionate, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, violent), чувствен (fleshly, lush, material, sensual, sensuous, voluptuous), влюбчив (amative), влюбен (amatory, enamored, enamoured, falling in love, in love, smitten), любовен (amative, amatory, gallant, love). (various references)

Chinese		好淫. (various references)

Czech		zamilovaný (adoring, falling in love, favorite, favourite, in love), milostný (amatory, romantic). (various references)

Farsi		عاشقانه , عاشق (Lover, Paramour), شیفته (Captive, Fond, Gaga, Mad). (various references)

Finnish		lemmekäs. (various references)

French		amoureux (amativeness). (various references)

German		zärtlich (affectionate, affectionately, caressing, endearing, fond, fondly, gentle, loving, lovingly, tender, tenderly), verliebt (amatory, amorously, enamored, enamoured, falls in love, fond). (various references)

Greek		ερωτόληπτοσ (amative, lovelorn), ερωτευμένοσ (enamoured, in love, wooer). (various references)

Hebrew		מלא א�"ב�", חשק� י (desirous, prurient, salacious). (various references)

Hungarian		szerelmi (amatory, erotic). (various references)

Indonesian		mata keranjang (heart-breaker), cinta (affection, love). (various references)

Italian		amoroso (affectionate, amatory, loving), galante (chivalrous, gallant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		色っぽい (erotic, sexy, voluptuous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たじょう, いろっぽい (erotic, sexy, voluptuous). (various references)

Manx		reagh (blithe, frisky, frolicsome, lecherous, mirthful, playful, randy, sportive), graihagh (affectionate, fond, lovable, lovesome, loving), er cannoo (aroused, lustful, sexually precocious, sexy), cannooagh (lecherous, lustful, smutty). (various references)

Pig Latin		amorousay

Portuguese		amoroso (amative, fond, loveable, lovers, loving), carinhoso (affectionate, fond, loving). (various references)

Romanian		amoros (amatory, endearing, tender), tandru (affectionate, dearly, fond, fondly, gentle, gently, loving, soft, soft-hearted, tender, tenderly), iubitor (affectionate, affectionately, devoted, endearing, fancy man, fond, loving), drãgãstos (affectionate, affectionately, amative, attractive, charming, dearly, loving, lovingly, sweet), îndrãgostit (love-lorn, lover). (various references)

Russian		влюбчивый (amative, susceptible). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaljubljive prirode, ljubavni (amative, amatory, love, loving). (various references)

Spanish		amoroso (affectionate, amatory, in love, loverlike, loving, tender, yearning, yielding), querendón, enamorado (admirer, enamored, enamoured, in love, lovesick, Valentine), enamoradizo, cariñoso (adoring, affable, affectionate, endearing, fond, kind, kindly, loving, warm). (various references)

Swedish		kärleksfull (affectionate, fond, loving, lovingly, tender), amorös. (various references)

Turkish		aşkla ilgili, aşk (adoration, amour, crush, gallantry, love, passion), aşık (admirer, adorer, amorist, beau, besotted, enamoured, fancy man, gallant, gone, in ecstasy, in love, inamorato, lover, minstrel, paramour, singer, spoon, Swain, sweetheart, wandering minstrel, wooer), tutkun (addicted to, bug, enamoured, passionately in love). (various references)

Ukranian		влюбливий (amative), закоханий (admirer, adorer, in love, passionate, spoony), амурний, любовний (amative, amatory, erotic). (various references)

Vietnamese		si tình; say đắm sự yêu đương, đa tình (amative). (various references)

Welsh		hoff o garu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	jolif. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "amorous": amorously, amorousness, amorousnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "amorous": clamorous, glamorous, nonglamorous, ultraglamorous, unglamorous. (additional references)
	Words containing "amorous": clamorously, clamorousness, clamorousnesses, glamorously, glamorousness, glamorousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Amorous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adoramus, Agorius, Ahmedou, Almoro, Amaoui, Amaroo, Amarouch, amarous, amarus, amerous, ammorus, amoros, Amorosa, amorosi, amorus, amoureuse, amoureux, amourous, apodous, Armoorgum, armorous, Azorius, Mabrouk, Matrouh, morosus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "amorous" (pronounced a"merus)
5	a" m er u s	glamorous, tetramerous, unglamorous.
4	-m er u s	humerus, humorous, numerous, timorous.
3	-er u s	adulterous, adventurous, avarice, barbarous, boisterous, cancerous, cantankerous, carboniferous, carnivorous, coniferous, dangerous, decorous, fossiliferous, generous, herbivorous, heterosporous, homosporous, insectivorous, lecherous, murderous, odorous, omnivorous, onerous, overgenerous, oviparous, ovoviviparous, phosphorous, phosphorus, ponderous, precancerous, preposterous, prosperous, rancorous, rapturous, rhinoceros, rigorous, slanderous, sonorous, thunderous, traitorous, treacherous, uterus, vigorous, viviparous, vociferous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-m-o-o-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: amours, ramous.
	-2 letters: amour, arums, moors, moras, muras, ramus, roams, rooms.
	-3 letters: amus, arms, arum, mars, moas, moor, moos, mora, mors, mura, oars, osar, ours, rams, roam, roms, room, rums, soar, soma, sora, sour, sumo, sura, ursa.
	-4 letters: amu, arm, ars, mar, mas, moa, moo, mor, mos, mus, oar, oms, ora, ors, our, ram.
	Words containing the letters "a-m-o-o-r-s-u"
	+2 letters: alumroots, amorously, amorphous, clamorous, coumarous, glamorous.
	+3 letters: anadromous, diadromous, foraminous, glamourous, guardrooms, harmonious, malodorous, modulators, monoculars, paronymous, pompadours.
	+4 letters: acrimonious, amorousness, amorphously, autoerotism, catadromous, clamorously, cockalorums, commutators, consummator, dicoumarols, fibromatous, formulators, glamorously, honorariums, lepromatous, moratoriums, morulations, omnifarious, outdoorsman, photomurals, protohumans, rhizomatous, sarcomatous, ultrasmooth, unglamorous.
	+5 letters: atheromatous, autoerotisms, automorphism, bromouracils, chaulmoogras, compurgators, consummators, consummatory, cryptogamous, demodulators, formulations, harmoniously, heterogamous, inharmonious, macropterous, malodorously, mononuclears, nonglamorous, parsimonious, proctodaeums, promulgators, pseudorandom, somatopleure.
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