in love

English

Prepositional phrase

in love

1. (transitive with with) Enamored (of a person, etc.)

   I think John is in love.

   Isn't it nice to see two people in love?

   Romeo was in love with Juliet.

   • 2004 May 3, Adam Duritz, Dan Vickrey, David Bryson, Matt Malley, David Immerglück, “Accidentally in Love”, in Shrek 2: Motion Picture Soundtrack‎^[1], performed by Counting Crows:

     So she said "What's the problem, baby?" / What's the problem? I don't know / Well, maybe I'm in love (love) / Think about it every time / I think about it / Can't stop thinking 'bout it

2. (transitive with with) (informal) Very fond (of an idea, etc.)

   I'm not exactly in love with the idea of having to start again from scratch.

Synonyms

• enamoured (alt. enamored)

Translations

of a person or persons: enamored

• Armenian: սիրահարված (siraharvac)
• Asturian: namoráu
• Catalan: enamorat
• Danish: forelsket (da)
• Dutch: verliefd op
• Esperanto: amanta
• Finnish: rakastunut (fi)
• French: amoureux de
• Galician: namorado, enamorado
• German: verliebt in (+ accusative)
• Greek: ερωτευμένος (el) m (erotevménos)
• Hebrew: מְאֹהָב m (m'oháv)
• Hungarian: szerelmes (hu)
• Icelandic: ástfanginn af (+ dative)
• Ido: amorala (io)
• Irish: i ngrá le
• Italian: innamorato di
• Japanese: 恋する (koi suru)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: evîndar (ku) m or f

• Manx: ayns graih rish
• Maori: whaiāipo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forelsket (no)

• Polish: zakochany (pl)
• Portuguese: enamorado (pt), apaixonado (pt)
• Romanian: îndragostit de
• Russian: влюблённый в (vljubljónnyj v)
• Scottish Gaelic: ann am gaol, ann am gràdh
• Spanish: enamorado de
• Swedish: kär (sv),förälskad (sv)
• Turkish: aşk içinde, âşık (tr)
• Ukrainian: закоханий m (zakoxanyj) (в)
• Welsh: mewn cariad
• West Frisian: fereale

very fond (of an idea, etc.)

• Dutch: gek van
• Icelandic: hrifinn af (+ dative)
• Russian: влюблённый в (vljubljónnyj v)
• Spanish: encantado de
• Swedish: förtjust i

Further reading

• “in love”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• live on, love-in