amative

American  

[am-uh-tiv] / ˈæm ə tɪv /

adjective

1. disposed to love; amorous.

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amative British  

/ ˈæmətɪv /

adjective

1. a rare word for amorous

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Other Word Forms

• amatively adverb
• amativeness noun
• unamative adjective
• unamatively adverb

Etymology

Origin of amative

1630–40; < Medieval Latin amātīvus, equivalent to amāt ( us ) (past participle of amāre to love) + -īvus -ive

Example Sentences

He was an average sample of the good-natured, warm-blooded, proud-spirited, amative, alimentive, convivial, young and early-middle-aged man of the decent-born middle classes everywhere and any how.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

Japanese amative poetry is noted for its delicate fancies and plays on words exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, of translation, or even of expression, to one unacquainted with the language.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

For that matter, though not amative to any considerable degree so far as I have discovered, I was never outside the atmosphere of women until now. 

From The Sea Wolf by London, Jack

Two qualities, indeed, of his nature he kept in such abeyance, the amative and the humorous—and he was not without a humorous side—as to express but little of them in his writings.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various

He was poor; he was amative; he was unsatisfied.

From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Belloc, Hilaire