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Definition
with sexual desire; or relating to sex or feelings of romantic love- She doesn't think of him in an amorous way.
amorous = sexual or romantic manner
- According to the study, men who are shown pictures of women in a red dress want to ask her more amorous questions than men shown pictures of the same woman in green dress.
- Shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - She had thought that there was an amorous relationship between Tita and Pedro, concealed, hidden by outward appearances.Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
- It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land, the scenery of which is very well described.Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises
- Lovers can see to do their amorous rites
By their own beauties, or, if love be blind,
It best agrees with night.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - rebuffed the amorous advances
- amorous glances
- But she did not feel amorous with LuLing in the next room.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- He clutched Doyle as an amorous swain might clutch his lady in a hug dance.Stephen King -- Carrie
- The girl was very pretty, and sang; she looked amorously at her Theatin, and from time to time pinched his fat cheeks.Voltaire -- Candide
- So said he, and forbore not glance or toy Of amorous intent; well understood Of Eve, whose eye darted contagious fire.John Milton -- Paradise Lost
- A furious bark erupted from Frigga, who was angrily eyeing the amorous Fourth Years.Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- He thought of her in amorous meditation a good deal as he might have thought of a Dresden-china shepherdess.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- I was putting on an old nightgown, a hint that I was not feeling amorous.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- How many scenes, how many amorous episodes he had imagined on this seductive and playful theme, when his work was over!Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- It is she—shady and amorous as she was—who makes it not quite fantastic for me to say to you to-night: Earn five hundred a year by your wits.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- How amorous Ralph had grown since they moved!Gish Jen -- Typical American
- May be, the amorous count solicits her In the unlawful purpose.William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well
- As I hesitated, two of the beautiful Upper-world people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow.H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
amorous = relating to sexual desire
amorous = in love (with you)
amorous = sexual or romantic
amorous = sexual or romantic
amorous = love-making