[每日] amatory (a) 性愛的
Word of the Day (Thursday November 20, 2008)
amatory \AM-uh-tor-ee; -tohr-\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/e857I
of love; expressing love, especially sexual
She's cranky, self-absorbed and a compulsive flirt with a long
series of amatory conquests to her record.
-- Carol Shields, His Kisses Taste Like Bubble Gum," review of The
Love Letter, by Cathleen Schine, New York Times, May 27, 1991
Even Piejack, who harbors a delusion that his mangled hand has an
amatory upside, is at heart a pedestrian perv, and Boyd, the
telemarketer, is more an annoyance than the end of the world.
-- John Leland, Key Party," review of Nature Girl, by Carl Hiaasen,
New York Times, December 2, 2002
Therese at first seems cut from familiar femme-fatale cloth, and
Jack seems a direct descendant of a long line of noir chumps who
follow their amatory urges down hell's rabbit hole.
-- Eddie Muller, The dangers of rescuing damsels in so-called
distress," review of Belonging, by Ron Butlin, San Francisco
Chronicle, June 30, 2003
by 1599, from Latin amatorius "of or pertaining to love," from
Latin amator "lover"
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