What are some good synonyms for crush?
What I mean by crush, is an unrealistic one-sided obsession? I am a man. My crush is David Beckham. And he’s incredible. But there’s not a reason to be jealous. I’ve cucked out all that… ”
would a word change to a longer word? Why is one word more formal, less complex? I searched for a while but can’t find any synonyms for the form of Crush. I
want the word for a novel which is set in an old-ish fantasy period so I don’t think ‘crush’ would feel in-place. The main character is a lower class
worker.
If you could use the verb moon Act in a
dreamily infatuated manner: Timothy’s mooning over her like a schoolboy Oxford Dictionaries Online
It is often
used as a phrasal verb with over and an object, although it can be used without, see Stop mooning!
If nothing else could speak to this topic right now, why doesn’t anyone else understand the issue?
Besotted would fit the context
besotted
completely in love with someone and always thinking of them : He was so completely besotted with her that he couldn’t see how badly she treated him
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is the org/dictionary/ english/besotted Given the setting, the language and grammar are usually very different from
modern English, hence: ‘I am truly besotted with Sir Beckham of Stow-on-the-Wold. ‘
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Adulate verb (used with object), adulated, adulating. 1. To show excess admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.
What’s a synonym for the word “loved” in the dictionary?
- a object of one’s passionate love; sweetheart:
He’s taking out his new flame tonight.
I’m seeing most of the words for a target of infatuation are lacking the unrequited dimension of crush at all. What’s that romantic comedy that would make you ignore a crush? If you are, they’ve stopped being a crush and moved on to being something more realistic.
If you intend to use unrequited unrequited, use an adjective instead, or do it like your equivalent in other words? Unrequited flame or simply unrequited The ancestors developed a single word (crush) for something they could have expressed more complexly.
Try yearning it would fit in a fantasy story in a long-ago setting.
Gwyneth had a powerful yearning for Sir Mortimer, a yearning she knew she must keep to herself. Can You
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Dictionary, yearning, from The Free Dictionary A
persistent and sometimes melancholy desire; a longing Examples, from Henry David Thoreau.
I don’t know of any poetry to quote which adequately expresses this yearning for the Wild To
substantiate that it is an old word with an old flavor, see Etomonline yearning.
Old English gierning (n.) Verbal noun from yearn (v.).
yearn in the Middle and Middle English dialects of gernan in Saxon, geornan in Mercian, giorna in Northumbrian, from Proto-Germanic *gernjan (source also of Old German gern, Old Norse georn “desirous,” Old German gern to (the German word) “gladly, willingly”), from Phaedra- “to like, want”
Can you apply puppy love or calf love?
When you commit romantic
attachments your kids will not be aware. I hate them.
How do I catch my son reeling off a tennis imponderable? (He just loves his daughter because it’s his turn)
References:
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is this calf love?
