Lexicon: love – lower

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love (-d, -s, -est, -ing), v. [OE lufian, see love, n.]

  1. Want; enjoy; have great pleasure in.
  2. Care for; entertain a great affection for; regard with esteem.
  3. Feel sorry; regard another in a pitying sort of way.
  4. Revere; venerate; worship.
  5. Like; express affection; care about someone.
  6. Have a platonic feeling; feel spiritual closeness to.

loved, verbal adj. [see love, v.]

  1. Persons or things that are loved.
  2. A beloved person or thing.
  3. 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.]

  1. One specific romantic lover.
  2. Feelings of anyone who is a lover of another specific person.
  3. People who are in love.
  4. A specific pair of lovers.
  5. One lover whose actions are compared to anothers.

loving, verbal adj. [see love, v.]

  1. Fond, affectionate, kind, as a loving friend.
  2. Expressing love by word or action.

low (-er), adj. [ME lāh.]

  1. Not very high or elevated.
  2. Not rising to its normal heigth.
  3. An area below ground level.
  4. The lowness of the horizon.
  5. A low price, rate, amount, number.
  6. A low tone of voice.
  7. Beckoning to someone.
  8. A low, moderate temperature.
  9. Humbling, depressing, rejection.

low, adv. [ME lahe, see low, adj.]

  1. Being near the ground.
  2. Something below its normal level.
  3. To be in a humble depressed state.
  4. In a low tone , opposite of high pitched.

lower, adj. [see low, adj.]

  1. Referring to a class of people, low on the totem pole.
  2. A physical description, opposite of high.
  3. Lower in numbers, rates,etc.