AFFECTIONATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affectionate mean? 

• AFFECTIONATE (adjective)
  The adjective AFFECTIONATE has 1 sense:

1. having or displaying warmth or affection

  Familiarity information: AFFECTIONATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFECTIONATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or displaying warmth or affection

Synonyms:

affectionate; fond; lovesome; tender

Context example:

a tender glance

Similar:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

Derivation:

affection (a positive feeling of liking)

affectionateness (a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love)

affectionateness (a positive feeling of liking)

 Context examples 

She immediately shook her head at Fanny with arch, yet affectionate reproach, and taking her hand, seemed hardly able to help beginning directly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But her affectionate nature was so happy in what I now said to her with my whole heart, that her face became a laughing one before her glittering eyes were dry.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But Isabella became only more and more urgent, calling on her in the most affectionate manner, addressing her by the most endearing names.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction, I am sure it will.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As a child, she was affectionate and pleasing, and extremely fond of me; and I have devoted hours and hours to her amusement.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Esther was truly pious, and quite sincere in her advice, for she had an affectionate heart, and felt much for the sisters in their anxiety.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yet White Fang was never effusively affectionate.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Either of them would, in all probability, make him an affectionate, good-humoured wife.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She was warmly attached to the child who is now dead and acted towards him like a most affectionate mother.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You will gain a brother, a real, affectionate brother.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)