[ US /ˈæmɝəs/ ]
[ UK /ˈæməɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. inclined toward or displaying love
    feeling amorous
  2. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
    a romantic moonlight ride
    her amatory affairs
    amorous glances
    a romantic adventure
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How To Use amorous In A Sentence

  • Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
  • His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
  • In the tome, full of glamorous soft-focus pictures of the footballer, he waxes lyrical about the art of seduction, with fish his favourite weapon for luring girlfriends from the dining room to the boudoir.
  • I think there would be a certain amount of consensus about that, even amongst the most quixotic and naturally amorous of us.
  • Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio.
  • The advertisements depict smoking as glamorous and attractive.
  • Both men are from Brooklyn, both have children named Satchel, both are basketball fans, devout Knicks supporters, and both have made the clamorous city of New York their sound stage.
  • Testing the new bike in the dizzying mountains north of glamorous Monaco, all of these improvements came together beautifully. The Sun
  • In theory, this could be a smart strategic move but it is likely to "domesticate" Julian Assange; running such an NGO would require too many boring meetings with potential funders many of whom have already been alienated by the organisation and a nine-to-five office routine - the exact opposite of the glamorous nomadic lifestyle that the founder of WikiLeaks has become famous for. The Guardian World News
  • An egomaniacal celebrity author lives in Paris with his glamorous young second wife and his shy and unhappy grown-up daughter from his first marriage.
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