Definition of Affectionate
Affectionate
Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.
Kindly inclined; zealous.
Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.
Strongly inclined; -- with to.
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Affectionate Quotations
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch
It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
Larry David
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten
We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
Victoria Beckham
And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
Margaret Cavendish
Affectionate Translations
affectionate in Dutch is aanhalig
affectionate in French is affectieux
affectionate in Italian is amoroso
affectionate in Spanish is zalamero, amante, mimoso
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