Antonyms of verb love

1 of 4 senses of love

Sense 1
love -- (have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him")
       Antonym of hate (Sense 1)
      => hate, detest -- (dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb love

4 senses of love

Sense 1
love -- (have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him")

Sense 2
love, enjoy -- (get pleasure from; "I love cooking")
       => like -- (find enjoyable or agreeable; "I like jogging"; "She likes to read Russian novels")

Sense 3
love -- (be enamored or in love with; "She loves her husband deeply")
       => love -- (have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him")

Sense 4
sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk -- (have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?")
       => copulate, mate, pair, couple -- (engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring")

Antonyms of adj loving

1 sense of loving

Sense 1
loving (vs. unloving) -- (feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances")

unloving (vs. loving) -- (not giving or reciprocating affection)
        => cold, frigid -- (sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman")
        => loveless -- (without love; "a loveless marriage")
        => detached, unaffectionate, uncaring -- (lacking affection or warm feeling; "an uncaring person")
        => unromantic -- (neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance)

Similarity of adj loving

1 sense of loving

Sense 1
loving (vs. unloving) -- (feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances")
       => adoring, doting, fond -- (extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother")
       => affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender, warm -- (having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace")
       => amative, amorous -- (inclined toward or displaying love; "feeling amorous")
       => amatory, amorous, romantic -- (expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride")
       => attached -- (fond and affectionate; "she was very attached to her father")
       => captivated, charmed -- (strongly attracted)
       => enamored, infatuated, in love, potty, smitten, soft on (predicate), taken with (predicate) -- (marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her")
       => idolatrous -- (blindly or excessively devoted or adoring)
       => loverlike, loverly -- (like or in the manner of a lover)
       => overfond -- (excessively fond)
       => tenderhearted -- (easily moved to love)
       => touchy-feely -- ((often derogatory) openly expressing love and affection (especially through physical contact))
       => uxorious -- (foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife)
          Also See-> attached#3, committed#2; lovable#1, loveable#1; passionate#1; warmhearted#1

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