as in erotic
of, relating to, exciting, or expressing sexual attraction or desire
amatory letters that kept their love alive during the years they were separated by war
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Recent Examples of amatory
The brilliant young Mozart, only 34 at the time of the premiere, lifted this ludicrous amatory romp into sublime heights with his music.
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Jeremy Yudkin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
Lapine, making his feature film debut, doesn’t have the technique to turn this amatory whirl into a lyrical roundelay.
—Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
Peacock, talented, attractive, amatory, and a good friend to the bohemian Shelley circle, married, rather surprisingly, a Welsh parson’s daughter, Jane Gryffydh, who was ill at ease in London and developed life-long mental illness after the death of one of her children.
—Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amatory
Adjective
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Unfortunately, at least as depicted in Part 1, Sophie and Benedict’s romance lacks the tantalizing heat and erotic chemistry of the show’s previous central couples.—
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Similarly, Luka, parent company of the chatbot Replika, drastically changed its romantic companion chatbots’ personalities by removing their ability to engage in erotic conversations.—
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Of course, after a while the thrill of getting caught fades, and sneaking around becomes deeply sad rather than sexy.—
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But probabilities are less sexy than proclamations, ambiguities less attractive than assurances—or so the rising number of storm-hyping accounts on social media seem to suggest.—
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In the bawdy comedic scene, Tommy wakes up au natural in his hotel bed after an amorous evening with his wife, Angela Norris (Ali Larter), to find a shocked housekeeper in the hotel room.—
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Crew members are trained to deal with troublesome passengers like amorous or entitled couples.—
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“Amatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amatory. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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