Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
feeling or showing love and affection;
- Example: "loving parents"- Example: "loving glances"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loved (l[u^]vd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Loving.] [AS. lufian. [root]124. See Love,
n.]
1. To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or
good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love
one's country; to love one's God.
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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
--Matt. xxii.
37.
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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. --Matt.
xxii. 39.
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2. To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that
of one sex for the other.
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3. To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or
desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like;
as, to love books; to love adventures.
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Wit, eloquence, and poetry.
Arts which I loved. --Cowley.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Loving \Lov"ing\, a.
1. Affectionate.
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The fairest and most loving wife in Greece.
--Tennyson.
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2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
loving
adj 1: feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents";
"loving glances" [ant: unloving]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "loving":
Christian, Christlike, Christly, adoring, affectionate,
all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, amatory,
amorous, ardent, attached, attentive, benevolent, benign,
benignant, bound, boundless, brotherly, careful, caring, cautious,
changeless, circumspect, compassionate, conjugal, considerate,
cordial, creating, creative, curious, dear, decent, demonstrative,
devoted, doting, enamored, erotic, eternal, eternally the same,
everlasting, faithful, fervent, filial, fond, fraternal, glorious,
good, gracious, hallowed, heedful, highest, holy, human, humane,
husbandly, immortal, immutable, impassioned, infatuated, infinite,
just, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, languishing,
limitless, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, luminous, majestic,
making, maternal, melting, merciful, mindful, nice, numinous,
omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, parental, passionate,
paternal, permanent, perpetual, radiant, regardful, romantic,
sacred, sentimental, shaping, soft, softhearted, solicitous,
sovereign, supreme, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender,
tenderhearted, thoughtful, timeless, ubiquitous, unbounded,
unchanging, undefined, unlimited, uxorious, warm, warmhearted,
wifely
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Loving -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 67
Housing Units (2000): 70
Land area (2000): 673.081375 sq. miles (1743.272685 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.768373 sq. miles (9.760042 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 676.849748 sq. miles (1753.032727 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.813308 N, 103.608036 W
Headwords:
Loving
Loving, TX
Loving County
Loving County, TX
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Loving, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico
Population (2000): 1326
Housing Units (2000): 516
Land area (2000): 1.134558 sq. miles (2.938492 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.134558 sq. miles (2.938492 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44420
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.285417 N, 104.096720 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 88256
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Loving, NM
Loving