Definition of Affectionate

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Affectionate

Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.

Kindly inclined; zealous.

Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.

Strongly inclined; -- with to.

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Affectionate Quotations

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
Larry David

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
Margaret Cavendish

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?
Ernestine Rose

Affectionate Translations

affectionate in Dutch is aanhalig
affectionate in French is affectieux
affectionate in Italian is amoroso
affectionate in Spanish is zalamero, amante, mimoso

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