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LOVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Held dear
Example:
his loved companion of many years
Classified under:
Similar:
admired (regarded with admiration)
adored; idolised; idolized; worshipped (regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god))
beloved; darling; dear (dearly loved)
blue-eyed; fair-haired; white-haired (favorite)
cherished; precious; treasured; wanted (characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for)
best-loved; favored; favorite; favourite; pet; preferent; preferred (preferred above all others and treated with partiality)
Also:
wanted (desired or wished for or sought)
Antonym:
unloved (not loved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb love
Context examples:
It would not be the nature of any woman who truly loved.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Think of the woman he loved, and how other women must have envied her!
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I had a queer time with Aunt today, and, as I got the best of it, I'll tell you about it," began Jo, who dearly loved to tell stories.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
How they loved each other, the members of this family!
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A question about whether an individual feels or felt loved and wanted.
(Have You Felt Loved and Wanted, NCI Thesaurus)
My father loved Beaufort with the truest friendship and was deeply grieved by his retreat in these unfortunate circumstances.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Treatment that helps a person work through a greater than normal reaction to a loss, such as the death of a loved one.
(Grief therapy, NCI Dictionary)
The normal response to a major loss, such as the death of a loved one.
(Grief, NCI Dictionary)
I brought you there because I really loved you.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Young people, between the ages of 10 and 19, were found to have 20 times the risk of developing tuberculosis through close exposure to an infected loved one.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
