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AFFECTIONATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or displaying warmth or affection
Example:
a tender glance
Synonyms:
affectionate; fond; lovesome; tender
Classified under:
Similar:
loving (feeling or showing love and affection)
Derivation:
affection (a positive feeling of liking)
affectionateness (a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love)
affectionateness (a positive feeling of liking)
Context examples:
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Is the patient less affectionate or lacking in emotions when compared to his/her usual self?
(NPI - Less Affectionate or Lacking in Emotions, NCI Thesaurus)
The company laughed again, and encouraged the old man by half-derisive and half-affectionate cries.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He wanted to be affectionate to this sister, who was good, and who, in her way, he knew, loved him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She was never, as I think I have said, ostentatiously affectionate, but she was heard by the coachman chatting with the Colonel in a friendly fashion.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The dear girl was more affectionate with me than ever, and clung to me as though she would detain me; but there was much to be talked of and I came away.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In loud voices they shouted over the day’s fighting, wrangled about details, or waxed affectionate and made friends with the men whom they had fought.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When gouty Professor Wadley limped down to his seat there were general affectionate inquiries from all parts of the hall as to the exact state of his poor toe, which caused him obvious embarrassment.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You, perhaps, could make up your mind to be about my hand and chair—to wait on me as a kind little nurse (for you have an affectionate heart and a generous spirit, which prompt you to make sacrifices for those you pity), and that ought to suffice for me no doubt.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
