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IN LOVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in love mean?
• IN LOVE (adjective)
The adjective IN LOVE has 1 sense:
1. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
Familiarity information: IN LOVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
Synonyms:
enamored; in love; infatuated; potty; smitten; soft on; taken with
Context example:
Narcissus was a beautiful Greek youth who became enamored of his own reflection
Similar:
loving (feeling or showing love and affection)
Context examples
Charles joins me in love, and everything proper.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I'm coming to that, ma'am—that Mr. Edward fell in love with.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"I'm in love with somebody else," said she.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She gets prettier every day, and I'm in love with her sometimes.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But the elder leader was wise, very wise, in love even as in battle.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Of course I was in love with little Em'ly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“I rather wonder Julia is not in love with Henry,” was her observation to Mary.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He was more in love with her than Emma had supposed; and who can say how it might have ended, if his father had not made his appearance?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Mars will provoke any resentments that any of your partners in love or business may have been harboring.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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