The meaning of AFFECTIONATE is feeling or showing affection or warm regard : loving. How to use affectionate in a sentence.

They are held in respectful, warm, affectionate, appreciative relationship with others, including for many, relationships with animals. From the Cambridge English Corpus Positive maternal …

The ideal partner is easily affectionate and responsive on many levels: physically, emotionally and verbally.

Affectionate words and actions show love, liking, or compassion. Kissing on the cheek, holding hands, and hugging are all affectionate. Parents and children, teachers and students, brothers …

If you are affectionate, you show your fondness for another person in your behaviour. They were more affectionate towards the younger child.

affectionate - having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace"

showing caring feelings and love for somebody synonym loving. He is very affectionate towards his children. Definition of affectionate adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. …