in love
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1.9
- idiom
:
enamorado de
- My father and mother were very much in love and loved to travel.
- fall in love
- in love with someone
- so in love
He's like, I'm in love with the I'm in love with Sammy.
- 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
20
5.8
Very strongly attracted to someone or something
17
3.4
Completely in love with someone
16
7.1
Feeling a strong liking for someone or something, often very quickly
16
7.0
Showing romantic or sexual feeling for someone
11
6.1
Feeling a very strong but short attraction to someone, often without reason
5
6.8
Very much in love with a person, place, or thing
1
7.2
Very much in love with someone or something and often thinking only about them
1
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'.