Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: love – lower
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love (-d, -s, -est, -ing), v. [OE lufian, see love, n.]
- Want; enjoy; have great pleasure in.
- Care for; entertain a great affection for; regard with esteem.
- Feel sorry; regard another in a pitying sort of way.
- Revere; venerate; worship.
- Like; express affection; care about someone.
- Have a platonic feeling; feel spiritual closeness to.
loved, verbal adj. [see love, v.]
- Persons or things that are loved.
- A beloved person or thing.
- The ability to love not referring to anything specific.
loveliness, n. [see lovely, adj.]
Desirable beauty.
lovely, adj. [OE luflic, see love, n.]
Desirable physical characteristics of someone or thing , may excite love.
lover, adj. [see love, v.]
One who has an affection for something; it is describing the noun.
lover (-s , -'s), n. [see love, v.]
- One specific romantic lover.
- Feelings of anyone who is a lover of another specific person.
- People who are in love.
- A specific pair of lovers.
- One lover whose actions are compared to anothers.
loving, verbal adj. [see love, v.]
- Fond, affectionate, kind, as a loving friend.
- Expressing love by word or action.
low (-er), adj. [ME lāh.]
- Not very high or elevated.
- Not rising to its normal heigth.
- An area below ground level.
- The lowness of the horizon.
- A low price, rate, amount, number.
- A low tone of voice.
- Beckoning to someone.
- A low, moderate temperature.
- Humbling, depressing, rejection.
low, adv. [ME lahe, see low, adj.]
- Being near the ground.
- Something below its normal level.
- To be in a humble depressed state.
- In a low tone , opposite of high pitched.
lower, adj. [see low, adj.]
- Referring to a class of people, low on the totem pole.
- A physical description, opposite of high.
- Lower in numbers, rates,etc.