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loving

Syllables: lov·ingUK/ˈlʌv.ɪŋ/

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Australia/ˈlɐv.ɪŋ/

loving noun: the action of the verb to love. Also the euphemistic form of fucking.

Noun

loving (usually uncountable, plural lovings)

  1. (usually) The action of the verb to love.
    • all natural lovings and longings1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 132, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Adjective

loving (comparative lovinger or more loving, superlative lovingest or most loving)

  1. Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.
    • his loving wife, her loving husband

Proper noun capitalized: Loving

IPA/ˈlʌvɪŋ/

Loving (countable and uncountable, plural Lovings)

  1. A surname.
  2. A village in Eddy County, New Mexico, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Oklahoma, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Young County, Texas, United States.
  5. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Loving County.
  6. (US, abbreviation, ellipsis, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Loving v. Virginia, a 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized interacial marriage under the Equal Protection and Due Process; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.

Also used as

loving is also the euphemistic form of fucking.

loving is also the present participle and gerund of love.

loving meaning in Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati and Arabic

loving in Marathi

प्रेमळ

loving in Telugu

ప్రేమించేది

loving in Gujarati

પ્રેમાળ

loving in Arabic

expressing a large amount of love
مُحِبّ muḥibb, وَدُود wadūd

Examples of loving in a sentence

  • Theirs was a chaste marriage, loving and content.
  • George is a loyal and loving husband.
  • The new baby’s room glows with bright, loving colours.

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Synonyms of loving

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Forms of loving

Noun
plurallovings
Adjective
comparativelovinger
comparativemore loving
superlativelovingest
superlativemost loving
Proper noun
pluralLovings

Plural of loving: lovings

Origin of loving

Inherited from Middle English lovyng(e) (“love”), inherited from Old English lufung. By surface analysis, love + -ing.

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Questions about loving

What does loving mean?
Loving means the action of the verb to love.
What is loving in Marathi?
Loving in Marathi is प्रेमळ. See Loving meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is loving?
Loving can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce loving?
Loving is pronounced /ˈlʌv.ɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of loving?
The plural of loving is lovings.

Words near loving in the dictionary

  1. lovies
  2. Lovin
  3. lovin'
  4. Lovina
  5. Lovinac
  6. loving
  7. loving away
  8. Loving County
  9. loving cup
  10. loving cups
  11. loving it or lumping it

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: loving (page history and authors); Loving (page history and authors); loving (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loving (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loving (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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