Amatory

Definition: Amatory

Amatory

Adjective

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

Date "amatory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Amatory

Synonyms: amorous (adj), romantic (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Love	Affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous, amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Amatory

English words defined with "amatory": Amatorial, Amatorian, Amatorious, Amoroso, amorous, Anacreontic ♦ Erative, Erotical ♦ romantic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "amatory": Milesian Fables. (references)

Etymologies containing "amatory": Amatorian. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Amatory Experiences of the Lustful Turk (reference) Amatory Persuasion in Antiquity: Studies in Theory and Practice (reference) Confessions of an English maid ; & The amatory experiences of a surgeon (reference) Lovers, Rakes, and Rogues: Amatory, Merry, and Bawdy Verse from 1580 to 1830 (reference) Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Amatory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amatory" is used about 17 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)	100%	17	85,106

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "amatory": sub-amatory.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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 "amatory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dashuror (amorous, erotic, inamorato, love), dashurie. (various references)

Arabic		‏غرامي (amorous, overwhelming), ‏عشقي (amorous). (various references)

Bulgarian		влюбен (amorous, enamored, enamoured, falling in love, in love, smitten), любовен (amative, amorous, gallant, love). (various references)

Czech		milostný (amorous, romantic), milenecký. (various references)

German		verliebt (amorous, amorously, enamored, enamoured, falls in love, fond). (various references)

Greek		ερωτικόσ (erotic), ερωτομανήσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מביע א�"ב�". (various references)

Hungarian		szerelmes (amorous, enamored, enamoured, erotic, in love, lover, loving, nutty, spoon, sweetheart, sweetie). (various references)

Indonesian		penuh kasih sayang (affectionate). (various references)

Italian		amoroso (affectionate, amorous, loving), amatorio, erotico (erotic, erotically). (various references)

Manx		miandoil (amative). (various references)

Pig Latin		amatoryay

Portuguese		amatório, erótico (erotic, erotic poems). (various references)

Romanian		amoros (amorous, endearing, tender), erotic (erotic, oversexed). (various references)

Russian		любовный (amative, erotic, gallant). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ljubavnički, ljubavni (amative, amorous, love, loving). (various references)

Spanish		amatorio (amative). (various references)

Swedish		erotisk (erotic, steamy). (various references)

Turkish		aşkın belirtisi olan (amative), aşk dolu (adoring, amative, loving), aşıkâne. (various references)

Ukranian		еротичний (erogenous, erotic, oversexed), любовний (amative, amorous, erotic), люблячий (affectionate, fond, loving). (various references)

Vietnamese		yêu đương. (various references)

Welsh		carwriaethol. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "amatory": declamatory, defamatory, exclamatory. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Amatory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amajor, amater, amato, amatomy, amator, Amatori, Amatoria, amatur, Ambato, Amintor, Amintore, amoatory, amotor, Ampato, anatogy, anatory, Armato, Camataru, Damaturu, imatory, inatory, sanatory, vanitory, Yamadori. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "amatory" (pronounced 'Am"a*to*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-m-o-r-t-y"
	-2 letters: amort, aorta, aroma, atomy, mayor, moray, tryma.
	-3 letters: army, arty, atma, atom, maar, mart, maya, mayo, moat, mora, mort, rato, raya, roam, rota, ryot, taro, tora, tory, tram, tray, troy, tyro.
	-4 letters: ama, arm, art, mar, mat, may, moa, mor, mot, oar, oat, ora, ort, ram, rat, ray, rom, rot, rya, tam, tao.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-m-o-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: amorality, damnatory, mandatory, mayoralty.
	+3 letters: ambulatory, amendatory, defamatory, laparotomy.
	+4 letters: abnormality, aromaticity, astrocytoma, declamatory, exclamatory, lachrymator, maladroitly, mandatorily, manufactory, masticatory, mayoralties, paramountcy, paramountly.
	+5 letters: ambulatorily, amelioratory, aromatherapy, aromatically, assimilatory, astrocytomas, inflammatory, intracompany, lachrymators, manipulatory, masturbatory, microanalyst, microanatomy, mycobacteria, neuroanatomy, ornamentally, romantically.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.