Loving
Loving adjective - Feeling or showing love.
Usage example: they were a loving family, supporting each other when times were bad
Understanding and loving are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Understanding" instead an adjective "Loving".
Understanding
Understanding adjective - Having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of another.
Usage example: a kind and understanding teacher who often helps troubled students
Loving and understanding are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Loving" instead an adjective "Understanding".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- feeling and loving
- feeling and understanding
- sensitive and loving
- sensitive and understanding
- sympathetic and loving
- sympathetic and understanding
- tender and loving
- tender and understanding
- kind and loving
- kind and understanding
- considerate and loving
- considerate and understanding
- kindly and loving
- kindly and understanding
Both words in one sentence
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Donnie Darko: You'd think it would be the kind of movie where the parents are dysfunctional and Stepford Smiler, but Donnie's parents are loving and understanding, and he seems to love them back in his own way.
Source: Good Parents -
Happily Married: Jeremiah's wife is incredibly loving and understanding, Jeremiah thinks of her and the kids as he's stabbing a man to death.
Source: Film / Four Brothers -
While they have a tendency to be strict at times and even occasionally overly critical, for the most part they are wise, caring, loving and understanding.
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