amatory

am·a·to·ry

adj \ˈa-mə-ˌtȯr-ē\

Definition of AMATORY

: of, relating to, or expressing sexual love <amatory adventures>

Examples of AMATORY

1. <amatory letters that kept their love alive during the years they were separated by war>

First Known Use of AMATORY

1599

Related to AMATORY

Synonyms: erotic, amorous, aphrodisiac (also aphrodisiacal), erogenous, erotogenic, sexy, steamy

Antonyms: nonerotic, unerotic, unsexy

Related Words: autoerotic; carnal, fleshly, sensual, sensuous; bawdy, lascivious, lewd, lustful, obscene, prurient, racy, spicy, suggestive, titillating; dirty, filthy, foul, gross, indecent, nasty, pornographic, ribald, smutty, unprintable, vulgar; fetishistic, perversive

Near Antonyms: clean, decent, decorous, polite, proper, seemly; innocuous, inoffensive

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Rhymes with AMATORY

a priori, allegory, auditory, bedtime story, cacciatore, castratory, category, con amore, cover story, crematory, damnatory, decretory, dilatory, dormitory, excretory, expletory, feudatory, fumitory, Göteborg, gustatory, gyratory, horror story, hortatory, hunky-dory, inventory, laudatory, lavatory, mandatory, migratory, minatory, monitory, Montessori, morning glory, nugatory, offertory, oratory, overstory, piscatory, precatory, predatory, prefatory, probatory, promissory, promontory, purgatory, repertory, Ruwenzori, signatory, statutory, sudatory, territory, transitory, understory, vibratory, vomitory, yakitori