in love
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1.9
- idiom
- My father and mother were very much in love and loved to travel.
- fall in love
- in love with someone
- so in love
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- He's like, I'm in love with the I'm in love with Sammy.
- And she is in love with with a Khamiyan.
- So I actually haven't really been in love, in love since.
- Oh, am I in love with Ron right now?
- But that's what someone that's not truly been in love would say now.
- Turns out, yes, Ethan was very very very in love with Bryce.
- No one's died, but I am in love, OK, I'm off the market.
- That is what is involved in in love, being good to that person.
- He's got somebody who is in love with him, Andre Marielle.
- But you're not in love no more.
Examples
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After years of friendship, they finally realized they were in love with each other.
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And for the record, I think I'm in love with you, too.
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Oh my God, I am in love with this little thing.
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We went on to be happy and in love for nine months after that.
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I want to be in love with you.
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I thought I was in love.
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And I've been in love with it ever since.
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And now, she's in love with me.
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She said that she was in love with another man, that she was in love with Michael.
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Nina has never seen such a happy couple, so in love with each other.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
36
5.8
Very strongly attracted to someone or something
26
6.8
Very much in love with a person, place, or thing
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6.1
Feeling a very strong but short attraction to someone, often without reason
22
3.4
Completely in love with someone
21
7.1
Feeling a strong liking for someone or something, often very quickly
16
7.0
Showing romantic or sexual feeling for someone
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7.2
Very much in love with someone or something and often thinking only about them
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4.8
Feeling very much in love with someone and thinking about them a lot
How Romantic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'experiencing strong romantic feelings' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'in' (indicating being within a state or condition) with 'love' (intense affection). The spatial/state metaphor of being 'in' an emotion is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase in love may come from the simple image of being in a feeling of love, like saying someone is 'in' a state such as 'in trouble'. So being in love means you are surrounded or held by love, which is why it means 'feeling strong romantic love'.