amatory

American  

[am-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈæm əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /

Also amatorial

adjective

1. of or relating to lovers or lovemaking; expressive of love.

   amatory poems; an amatory look.

   Synonyms:

   passionate, ardent, amorous

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amatory British  

/ ˌæməˈtɔːrɪəl, ˈæmətərɪ /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or inciting sexual love or desire

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Other Word Forms

• amatorially adverb
• pseudoamatorial adjective
• pseudoamatory adjective

Etymology

Origin of amatory

1590–1600; < Latin amātōrius, equivalent to amā- (stem of amāre to love) + -tōrius -tory ¹

Example Sentences

Lapine, making his feature film debut, doesn’t have the technique to turn this amatory whirl into a lyrical roundelay.

From Los Angeles Times

Go ahead and take it to the next level with these two, minus the amatory innuendo.

From Salon

Living in daylight, the butterflies exchanged the drab, brown livery of many nighttime moths for a rich palette of colors, useful for broadcasting amatory signals to mates and warnings of toxicity to predators.

From New York Times

The contest precipitates a flurry of events: literary, amatory, monetary and minatory.

From Seattle Times

Even the pair’s eventual accommodation to this amatory obstacle succumbs to the prince’s other big difference from his fellow men: his immortality.

From Seattle Times