Word Meanings - AFFECTIONATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating

Additional info about word: AFFECTIONATE

1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language. 4. Strongly inclined; -- with to. Bacon. Syn. -- Tender; attached; loving; devoted; warm; fond; earnest; ardent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFFECTIONATE)

• Ardent
• Longing
• passionate
• aspiring
• eager
• fervent
• excited
• fiery
• glowing
• zealous
• fervid
• fierce
• keen
• vehement
• hot
• affectionate
• impassioned
• burning
• heated
• Brotherly
• Fraternal
• kind
• tender
• Cordial
• Warm
• earnest
• sincere
• reviving
• invigorating
• hearty
• Fond
• Loving
• attached
• foolish
• silly
• weak
• doting
• empty
• enamored
• devoted
• Friendly
• Well-inclined
• welldisposed
• amicable
• kindly
• social
• neighborly
• sociable
• favorable
• cordial

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AFFECTIONATE)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to AFFECTIONATE)

• LOVAGE
  An umbelliferous plant , sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant. (more info) indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian,
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
• LOVING
  1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson. 2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
• SINCERELY
  In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• REVIVEMENT
  Revival.
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• GLOWLAMP
  An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• DOTATION
  1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman. 2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.
• ASPIRATOR
  An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• HEATHER
  Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
• FRATERNAL
  Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace. -- Fra*ter"nal*ly, adv. An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war. Milton. Fraternal love and friendship. Addison.
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• SELF-LOVE
  The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope. Syn. -- Selfishness. -- Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SACERDOTAL
  Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs
• SUNBURN
  To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.