Adjective: amatory
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more amatory |
| Superlative | most amatory |
Sample Sentences
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Eggs, oysters, too, are amatory food; / But who is their purveyor from above / Heaven knows […] [1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.170:]
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In the desperate search for amatory satisfactions, the most monstrous ingredients have throughout the ages, been sought and compounded into electuaries and pastilles, philtres and ointments. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14:]
Adjectives inflected like amatory
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin amātōrius (“pertaining to love or a lover”, adjective), from amātor (“a lover”), from amō (“to love”). See: Latin Adjectives '
amātōrius'.