N. pleasure,
gratification, enjoyment,
fruition,
oblectation,
delectation, delection,
relish,
zest,
gusto, satisfaction,
complacency,
well-being, good,
snugness, comfort, ease,
cushion, sans souci, mind at ease, joy,
gladness, delight,
glee,
cheer,
sunshine,
cheerfulness, treat, refreshment,
amusement,
luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, happiness,
felicity,
bliss,
beatitude, beautification,
enchantment, transport,
rapture,
ravishment,
ecstasy, summum bonum,
paradise,
elysium, third heaven|, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness &c, hedonics, hedonism,
honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time,
dixie, dixie's land, saturnia regna,
arcadia, shangri-la, happy valley, agapemone
V. be pleased, feel pleasure, experience pleasure, joy, enjoy oneself, hug oneself, be in clover, be in elysium, tread on enchanted ground, fall into raptures, go into raptures, feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine, be pleased with, receive pleasure, derive pleasure, from, take pleasure, in, delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in, gloat over, enjoy,
relish, like, love, take to, take a fancy to, have a liking for, enter into the spirit of, take in good part, treat oneself to, solace oneself with
Adj. pleased, not sorry,
glad,
gladsome, pleased as punch, happy,
blest, blessed,
blissful,
beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful,
hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced,
enchanted, enraptures,
enravished, transported,
fascinated,
captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing,
ecstatic, beatic, painless,
unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless
Adv. happily, with pleasure, with glee
Phr. one's heart leaping with joy, "a wilderness of sweets", "i wish you all the joy that you can wish", jour de ma vie, "joy ruled the day and love the night", "joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt", "oh happiness, our being's end and aim!", "there is a pleasure that is born of pain", "throned on highest bliss", vedi napoli e poi muori, zwischen freud und leid ist die brucke nicht weit
Love Roget’s Thesaurus §897 N. love, fondness, liking, inclination, regard, dilection|, admiration, fancy, affection, sympathy,
fellow-feeling, tenderness, heart, brotherly love,
benevolence, attachment,
yearning, ἔρως, tender passion,
amour,
gyneolatry,
gallantry, passion, flame, devotion,
fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love,
rapture,
enchantment,
infatuation,
adoration,
idolatry,
cupid, venus,
myrtle, true lover's knot, love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story, the, old story, plighted love,
courtship, amourette, free love, maternal love, στοργή, parental love, young love, puppy love, attractiveness, popularity,
favorite, lover,
suitor, follower,
admirer,
adorer,
wooer,
amoret,
beau,
sweetheart,
inamorato,
swain, young man, flame, love,
truelove,
leman,
lothario,
gallant,
paramour,
amoroso, cavaliere servente,
captive,
cicisbeo, caro sposo,
inamorata,
ladylove,
idol,
darling,
duck,
dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa,
betrothed,
affianced,
fiancee,
flirt,
coquette,
amorette, pair of turtledoves, abode of love, agapemone
V. love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with, affection, be in love &c. with adj, have a love, for, entertain a love, for, harbor cherish a love, for, regard,
revere, take to, bear love to, be wedded to, set one's affections on, make much of, feast one's eyes on, hold dear, prize,
hug, cling to,
cherish,
pet, burn,
adore,
idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument, dote on, dote upon, take a fancy to, look sweet upon, become enamored, fall in love with, lose one's heart, desire, excite love, win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections, take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart,
attract,
attach,
endear, charm,
fascinate,
captivate,
bewitch,
seduce,
enamor,
enrapture, turn the head, get into favor, ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself,
propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable, set one's cap at,
flirt Adj. loving, fond of, taken with, struck with,
smitten,
bitten, attached to, wedded to,
enamored, charmed, in love,
love-sick, over head and ears in love, head over heels in love,
affectionate, tender, sweet upon,
sympathetic, loving,
amorous,
amatory, fond,
erotic,
uxorious, ardent,
passionate,
rapturous, devoted, motherly, loved, beloved well beloved, dearly beloved,
dear, precious,
darling,
pet, little,
favorite, popular,
congenial, after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy, after one's own heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy, to one's own heart, in one's good graces, dear as the apple of one's eye, nearest to one's heart, lovable,
adorable, lovely, sweet, attractive,
seductive,
winning, charming,
engaging, interesting,
enchanting,
captivating,
fascinating,
bewitching,
amiable, like an angel
Phr. amantes amentes, credula res amor est, militat omnis amasius, love conquers all, omnia vincit amor, si vis amari ama, "the sweetest joy, the wildest woe"
