When “I Love You” has been said so many times that is begins to sound trite and stale, it may be time to exercise your vocabulary and try some different romantic words when expressing your affections. Here are some synonyms for you to use to describe your feelings for your special someone.

Here is a partial list of romantic words that can be used for your love, culled from Moby’s Thesaurus. For many of the words found in this list you may find yourself wondering how “romantic” plays in, words like “regard”. These are typically “old school” words with a variety of uses, one of which can be romantic, in the sense of, “such is my regard that my eyes behold only you”. Use your imagination, for as long your heart is speaking, every word is true to your love.

Amor, Aphrodite, Astarte, Cupid, Eros, Love, Venus,
accord, accordance, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adulate,
adulation, affair, affection, affinity, agape, agreement, amor,
amorousness, amour, angel, ardor, attachment, attraction, babe,
baby, baby-doll, bask in, be all heart, be desirous of, be fond of, be partial to,
be pleased with, beau, beloved, beloved object, best love, betrothed, bonds of harmony,
boyfriend, burn with love, buttercup, care, care for, caress, cherish,
chick, choose, communion, concord, concordance, crush, cuddle,
darling, dear, dear one, deary, deify, delight, delight in,
desire, devotion, doll, embrace, emotion, empathy, enjoy,
exalt, faith, fancy, favor, feast on, fervor, fiance,
fiancee, fidelity, fondness, get high on, girl, groove on, gusto,
guy, harmony, have deep feelings, have designs on, have eyes for, have it bad, hold dear,
hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hope, idolize, infatuation,
lamb, lambkin, light of love, like, like-mindedness, likes, liking,
love affair, loved one, lovemaking, lover,, lust, lust after, luxuriate in,
make out, man, marriage, oneness, partiality, passion, peace,
pet, petkins, pleasure, precious, precious heart, predilection, prefer,
preference, prize, rapport, rapture,, regard, regards, rejoice in,
relationship, relish, remembrances, respects, revel in, revere, riot in,
romance, savor, sensuality, sentiment, sharing, snookums, sociability,
solicitude, sugar, suitor, supernatural virtues, swain, sweet, sweetheart,
sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, swim in, take, take pleasure in, take to,
taste, tenderness, thing, treasure, truelove, turtledove, union,
unison, unity, value, venerate, voluptuousness, wallow in, want,
warmth, weakness, well-beloved, wish, wish to goodness, wish very much, woman,
worship, would fain do, yearning, zeal

Of course, any word can be used to express your regard for the object of your affections, for as your heart beats in the fervor of passion, and your eyes savor the sensuality before you, there can be no evil word spoken, and all utterance falls in the realms of endearment.

I hope you find this list of romantic words useful in your quest to fully express your light of love to the object of your devotion.

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