N. sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, moral sensibility,
impressibility,
affectibility,
susceptibleness,
susceptibility,
susceptivity,
mobility,
vivacity,
vivaciousness,
tenderness, softness,
sentimental,
sentimentality,
sentimentalism,
excitability,
fastidiousness, physical sensibility, sore point, sore place, where the shoe pinches
V. be sensible, have a tender heart, have a warm heart, have a sensitive heart, take to heart, treasure up in the heart,
shrink, "die of a rose in aromatic pain", touch to the quick, touch on the raw, touch a raw nerve
Adj. sensible, sensitive, impressible, impressionable,
susceptive,
susceptible, alive to, impassionable,
gushing, warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted, tender as a chicken, soft,
sentimental, romantic,
enthusiastic,
highflying, spirited,
mettlesome,
vivacious, lively, expressive,
mobile, tremblingly alive, excitable, oversensitive, without skin,
thin-skinned,
fastidious Adv. sensibly, to the quick, to the inmost core
Phr. mens aequa in arduis, pour salt in the wound
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"
N. benevolence, christian charity, god's love, god's grace, good will,
philanthropy, unselfishness, good nature, good feeling, good wishes, kindness,
kindliness,
loving-kindness,
benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow- feeling, sympathy: goodness of heart, warmth of heart,
bonhomie, kind- heartedness,
amiability, milk of human kindness,
tenderness, love, friendship,
toleration, consideration,
generosity, mercy,
charitableness,
bounty,
almsgiving, good works,
beneficence, "the luxury of doing good", acts of kindness, a good turn, good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment, good samaritan,
sympathizer, bon enfant,
altruist V. be benevolent, have one's heart in the right place, bear good will, wish well, wish godspeed, view with an eye of favor, regard with an eye of favor, take in good part, take an interest in, feel an interest in, be interested in, feel interested in, sympathize with, empathize with, feel for,
fraternize, enter into the feelings of others, do as you would be done by, meet halfway, treat well, give comfort, smooth the bed of death, do good, do a good turn, benefit, render a service, be of use, aid
Adj. benevolent, kind, kindly,
well-meaning,
amiable,
obliging,
accommodating,
indulgent,
gracious,
complacent,
good-humored,
warm-hearted,
kind-hearted,
tender-hearted,
large-hearted, broad- hearted,
merciful,
charitable,
beneficent,
humane,
benignant,
bounteous,
bountiful,
good-natured,
well-natured,
spleenless,
sympathizing,
sympathetic,
complaisant, well-meant,
well-intentioned, fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly,
paternal,
maternal,
fraternal,
sororal, friendly
Adv. with a good intention, with the best intentions
Int. godspeed, much good may it do, phr, "act a charity sometimes", "a tender heart, a will inflexible", de mortuis nil nisi bonum, "kind words are more than coronets", quando amigo pide no hay manana, "the social smile, the sympathetic tear"
Pity Roget’s Thesaurus §914 N. pity,
compassion,
commiseration,
bowels, of compassion, sympathy,
fellow-feeling,
tenderness,
yearning,
forbearance, humanity, mercy,
clemency,
leniency, charity,
ruth, long- suffering, melting mood, argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae,
sympathizer, advocate, friend,
partisan, patron,
wellwisher V. pity, have pity, show pity, take pity,
commiserate,
compassionate,
condole,
sympathize, feel for, be sorry for, yearn for,
weep,
melt,
thaw, enter into the feelings of,
forbear, relent,
relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis, give a coup de grace, put out of one's misery, raise pity, excite pity, touch,
soften,
melt, melt the heart,
propitiate, disarm, ask for mercy,
supplicate, cry for quarter, beg one's life,
kneel,
deprecate Adj. pitying,
pitiful,
compassionate,
sympathetic, touched,
merciful, clement,
ruthful,
humane,
humanitarian, tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, soft hearted,
unhardened,
lenient,
exorable,
forbearing, melting, weak
Phr. one's heart bleeding for, haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco, "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind" onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa
Int. for pity's sake, mercy, have mercy, cry you mercy, god help you, poor thing, poor dear, poor fellow, woe betide, "quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!"
