companionate

adjective

com·​pan·​ion·​ate kəm-ˈpan-yə-nət 

: relating to or having the manner of companions

specifically : harmoniously or suitably accompanying

Examples of companionate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

What matters more in long-term relationships is companionate love, where the partners have a calmer, friendship-like connection. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025

For parents needing to refine the companionate element of their relationship, Brooks advised scheduling thirty minutes each day to talk about your day, worries or interests with each other. — Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025

For many couples, romantic feelings can evolve into a companionate bond over time. — Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025

This kind of familiarity—a way of talking through the screen, jostling past even the most interesting particulars set forward in a script—can make a performer a kind of alien, companionate presence onscreen. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024

That lovingness matches, in a weird way, the tone of Death’s monologues, which, despite a constant Catskills-esque patter of dark jokes about the daily vagaries and indignities of his work, often sound like a companionate essay by Jacobs-Jenkins. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023

These examples make a case for animals having emotional attachments, not unlike companionate love in humans. — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021

That’s because companionate love (for a long-term partner), romantic love and lust are orchestrated by three different brain systems, which operate in tandem. — Dina Cheney, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for companionate

• abbreviate
• accelerate
• accommodate
• accumulate
• acuminate
• adjudicate
• adulterate
• affiliate
• agglomerate
• agglutinate
• alleviate
• amalgamate