Affectionate
Affectionate adjective - Feeling or showing love.
Idealistic and affectionate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Idealistic" instead an adjective "Affectionate".
Nearby Words: affection, affectionately
Idealistic
Idealistic adjective - Having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality.
Affectionate and idealistic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affectionate" instead an adjective "Idealistic".
Both words in one sentence
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If this series wasn't so damned affectionate and idealistic, she'd be dead a few times over by now: death by mutation, death by radiation, death by burglar, death by falling off a building.
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During their early appearances, Marvel's Hawkeye and Black Widow fell into this; Hawkeye was the idealistic, gullible, affectionate partner to the manipulative, sinister Black Widow.
Source: Angel/Devil Shipping
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