My father was no less affectionate and tender to me than my mother was.
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Affectionate
//əˈfɛkʃənət//
Synonyms for "affectionate" (84 found)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
8 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesrelated to
12 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
61 translations across 29 languages.
Bengali
1 entries- স্নেহপ্রবণ adj (loving)
Bulgarian
2 entries- любящ adj (loving)
- нежен adj (loving)
Catalan
2 entries- afectuós adj (loving)
- afectuós adj (indicating love)
Chinese
1 entries- 友愛 /友爱 adj (loving)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 友愛 /友爱 adj (loving)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 友愛 /友爱 adj (loving)
- 深情 adj (loving)
- 溫柔 /温柔 adj (indicating love)
Danish
1 entries- kærlig adj (loving)
Esperanto
3 entries- ama adj (loving)
- amema adj (loving)
- amplena adj (loving)
Finnish
4 entries- hellä adj (loving)
- hellä adj (indicating love)
- rakastava adj (loving)
- rakastava adj (indicating love)
French
1 entries- affectueux adj (loving)
Galician
1 entries- afectuoso adj (loving)
German
1 entries- liebevoll adj (loving)
Hindi
1 entries- वत्सल adj (loving)
Hungarian
2 entries- szeretetteljes adj (indicating love)
- szerető adj (loving)
Icelandic
2 entries- ástúðlegur adj (loving)
- ástúðlegur adj (indicating love)
Irish
4 entries- caithiseach adj (loving)
- ceanúil adj (loving)
- cionmhar adj (loving)
- grámhar adj (loving)
Italian
1 entries- affettuoso adj (loving)
Japanese
1 entries- 人懐っこい adj (loving)
Latin
1 entries- affectuosus adj (loving)
Latvian
2 entries- mīlīgs adj (loving)
- mīlīgs adj (indicating love)
Macedonian
3 entries- не́жен adj (loving)
- не́жен adj (indicating love)
- чувстви́телен adj (loving)
Māori
2 entries- matatau adj (loving)
- mateoha adj (loving)
Polish
4 entries- czuły adj (loving)
- czuły adj (indicating love)
- kochający adj (loving)
- kochający adj (indicating love)
Portuguese
3 entries- afetuoso adj (loving)
- afetuoso adj (indicating love)
- carinhoso adj (indicating love)
Romanian
2 entries- afectuos adj (loving)
- afectuos adj (indicating love)
Russian
4 entries- лю́бящий adj (loving)
- лю́бящий adj (indicating love)
- не́жный adj (loving)
- не́жный adj (indicating love)
Spanish
3 entries- afectuoso adj (loving)
- afectuoso adj (indicating love)
- cariñoso adj (indicating love)
Swedish
2 entries- kärleksfull adj (loving)
- kärleksfull adj (indicating love)
Turkish
2 entries- canayakın adj (loving)
- sevecen adj (loving)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
He sent me an affectionate letter.
Source: tatoeba (297559)
Her affectionate letter moved me.
Source: tatoeba (309061)
He's always been very affectionate with his in-laws.
Source: tatoeba (435060)
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