amorous.
Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
Meaning & usage
Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
an amorous disposition
We were both feeling amorous so the inevitable happened.
Indicating love or sexual desire.
She kept making these amorous suggestions.
Of or relating to, or produced by, love.
She read me an amorous poem.
Affected with love; in love; enamored.
He had been amorous of her since schooldays.
Where this word comes from
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.
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