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amorous adjective [ ˈam(ə)rəs ]

• showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.
• "she rejected his amorous advances"
Similar: lustful, sexual, erotic, amatory, ardent, passionate, impassioned, romantic, affectionate, fond, loving, tender, doting, in love, enamoured, lovesick, lovey-dovey, spoony, kissy, smoochy, goo-goo, hot, randy, sportive,
Opposite: unloving, cold,
Origin: Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin amorosus, from Latin amor ‘love’.


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