Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Word of the Day

Amative

From Dictionary.com:
amative \AM-uh-tiv\, adjective:

Definition: Pertaining to or disposed to love, especially sexual love; full of love; amorous.

Example: "In the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of another nap even more often than it does to amative imaginings, Tennyson to the contrary notwithstanding."

-- "Touch of Spring Fever Makes Whole World Kin", Science News, May 23, 1931.

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