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loverlike

loverlike adjective: befitting or characteristic of a lover.

Adjective

loverlike (comparative more loverlike, superlative most loverlike)

  1. Befitting or characteristic of a lover.
    • I am very uneaſy to think how I have been drawn on one hand, and driven on the other, into a clandeſtine, in ſhort, into a mere Lover-like correſpondence, which my heart condemns.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 148
    • “So, Miſs Stanhope (said he) you see I am come a courting in a true Lover like Manner.”[c. 1792], [Jane Austen], “The Three Sisters: a novel”, in Volume the First, page 171

Forms of loverlike

comparativemore loverlike
superlativemost loverlike

Origin of loverlike

From lover + -like.

Words formed from loverlike

Questions about loverlike

What does loverlike mean?
Loverlike means befitting or characteristic of a lover.
What part of speech is loverlike?
Loverlike is an adjective.

Words near loverlike in the dictionary

  1. Loveridges
  2. lovering
  3. loveringite
  4. Loverings
  5. loverless
  6. loverlike
  7. loverliness
  8. loverly
  9. loverman
  10. lovermen
  11. Lovern

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