Entry Word: loving

Function: adjective

Meaning: feeling or showing love <they were a loving family, supporting each other when times were bad>

Synonyms adoring, affectionate, devoted, fond, tender, tenderhearted

Related Words caring, compassionate, considerate, cordial, doting, forgiving, friendly, kind, warmhearted; ardent, fervent, impassioned, passionate, warm; amatory, amorous, erotic; enamored, infatuated, lovesick; mushy, romantic, sentimental; brotherly, fatherly, motherly, sisterly

Near Antonyms aloof, detached, hardhearted, indifferent, pitiless, reserved, uncaring, unfeeling; disaffected, unconcerned, uninvolved; cold, frigid, unfriendly; hard-boiled, unromantic, unsentimental

Antonyms unloving