Friday, November 20, 2015

Love Described Words: A General Observation List

According to dictionary.reference.com, 'love' has a grammatical part-of-speech foundation as both a noun and a verb - both used with and without an object. However, I have noticed that it's also used as an adjective.

In my 40+ years, I have come across all kinds of words used to describe love. But it's only recently, as a result of this Love Study, that I began compiling a list of words - both single and 3-Or-Less - that I have observed being used to describe 'love'. Some are nouns, some verbs and some adjectives.

Here's the list, in alphabetical order:

Active-Action
Affection based attraction, affectionate
Attraction based affection, attractive
Assistant to kin, assistance to kin (a-Stance?)
Is Blind, blinding
Bittersweet
Correction
Caring, careful
Consideration
Commandment
Compassion
Commitment
Confusing
Connection based affection
Chastisement, not punishment
A Cure, not a disease,
Cure to lust
Condition with definition
"Don't hurt me!" (song)
Dangerous
Devotion
Debt to humanity (Christians)
Disciplined
A Disease (Star Trek Voyager episode)
Dis-traction, distracting
Easy to feel
Entertainment, entertaining
Education, educational, educated
Fighting, a fight
Falls in, falling in
Forgiving
For-giving (bumper sticker)
Fruits
Grace, graceful
Grateful
Great
Grand
Hard
Harmony, harmonious
Humble
Humility
An Investment
Intimacy, intimate
Irrational (R, Dawkins, God Delusion)
Insightful
Inebriating, intoxicating (B. Knowles - "Drunk in love")
James 1:19-20 (for Listening)
Judgment, not law
Knowledge
Loyalty to God
Listens, listening
Laughter (Michael, the movie - "It's the path to true love.")
Letting go
Mysterious
Mercy, merciful
Mature, maturity
Medicine, medicinal
Magnanimity, magnanimous
Neutral, neutrality
Obedience to God
Passive-Passion
PAIN, PAINFUL
Perfect, perfection
Pleasure, pleasurable
Patience based affection, patient
Respect, Respectful
Relational
Righteous-indignation
Responsibility, responsible
Resistant to sin, resistance to sin (a-Stance?)
Sacrifice, sacrificial
Seeing, seer
Selfless
Supernatural
Safe, safety
Salvation
Sober, sobering
Strong, strength
Tough, tough to do
Truth, truthful
Understanding
Undefinable
Union, unity
Vegetables
War
Waiting
Working
Walks in, walking in
Wise, wisdom
Zealous

More observed words to describe Love may follow, but so far these are words that I have heard over the years that are used to describe some aspect of love.




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