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300 Words & Phrases to Describe Someone You Love

Are you looking for just the right words to express how you feel?

Perhaps you are writing a romantic poem, a lengthy love letter, or a card that includes heartfelt messages to your beloved, and a simple “I love you” doesn’t carry enough weight.

You don’t need a high word count to tell someone how you feel effectively.

If you need inspiration, read on to browse lists of creative words to describe someone you love, along with a few phrases to express how you feel and how much you care!

Here is an alphabetical list of unique words to describe someone who has your heart:

A Words

  • Adoring
  • Amazing
  • Astonishing
  • Abiding
  • Admirable
  • Admired
  • Adorable
  • Adored
  • Adventuresome
  • Affectionate
  • Ageless
  • Alluring
  • Amazing
  • Amorous
  • Angelic
  • Appealing
  • Appetizing
  • Ardent
  • Arousing
  • Arresting
  • Attentive
  • Attractive
  • Awesome

B Words

  • Beautiful
  • Blissful
  • Bold
  • Boundless
  • Bright
  • Burning
  • Beaming
  • Beauteous
  • Beautiful
  • Becoming
  • Bedazzling
  • Beloved
  • Best-loved
  • Bewitching
  • Blossoming
  • Blooming
  • Bodacious
  • Breathtaking
  • Brilliant
  • Buoyant

C Words

  • Capable
  • Captivating
  • Caring
  • Charismatic
  • Charming
  • Cheerful
  • Cherished
  • Clever
  • Committed
  • Compassionate
  • Compelling
  • Complete
  • Considerate
  • Crazy about you
  • Cuddly
  • Curvaceous
  • Curvy
  • Cute

D Words

  • Delicious
  • Devoted
  • Divine
  • Dapper
  • Darling
  • Dashing
  • Dazzling
  • Dearest
  • Debonair
  • Delicate
  • Delectable
  • Delicious
  • Delightful
  • Desirable
  • Desired
  • Devoted
  • Disarming
  • Divine
  • Dovelike
  • Dreamy
  • Dynamite

E Words

  • Eager
  • Ecstasy
  • Enduring
  • Enveloping
  • Everlasting
  • Easygoing
  • Easy to talk to
  • Effervescent
  • Elated
  • Electric
  • Electrifying
  • Elegant
  • Enamored
  • Enchanting
  • Endearing
  • Endowed
  • Energizing
  • Engaging
  • Enjoyable
  • Enlivening
  • Enrapturing
  • Enriching
  • Enthralling
  • Enticing
  • Entrancing
  • Epic
  • Exceptional
  • Exciting
  • Exhilarating
  • Exquisite
  • Exotic
  • Extraordinary
  • Eye-catching

F Words

  • Forever
  • Fresh
  • Fabulous
  • Faithful
  • Fantastic
  • Fascinating
  • Favored
  • Favorite
  • Fetching
  • Fiery
  • Finest
  • First-class
  • Five-star
  • Flawless
  • Flirty
  • Foxy
  • Frisky
  • Frolicsome
  • Fulfilling
  • Fun

G Words

  • Giddy
  • Gorgeous
  • Gallant
  • Generous
  • Gentle
  • Genuine
  • Giving
  • Glamorous
  • Gleaming
  • Glistening
  • Glowing
  • Golden
  • Goodhearted
  • Good-humored
  • Gorgeous
  • Graceful
  • Gracious
  • Gratifying

H Words

  • Honest
  • Hot
  • Handsome
  • Harmonious
  • Haunting
  • Heartfelt
  • Heart-stopping
  • Heartwarming
  • Heavenly
  • High-class
  • High-spirited
  • Honeyed, Honorable
  • Honored
  • Huggable
  • Hunky
  • Hypnotic

I Words

  • Innocent
  • Intense
  • Ideal
  • Immeasurable
  • Impassioned
  • Impeccable
  • Impish
  • Impressive
  • Incandescent
  • Incomparable
  • Inebriating
  • Infatuating
  • Infinite
  • In my heart
  • Inseparable
  • Interconnected
  • Interesting
  • Intertwined
  • Intimate
  • Intoxicating
  • Intriguing
  • Invigorating
  • Inviting
  • Irrepressible
  • Irresistible

J Words

  • Jaunty
  • Jaw-dropping
  • Jazzy
  • Joyful
  • Jolly
  • Joyous
  • Jubilant
  • Juicy
  • Just right

K Words

  • Keen
  • Kind
  • Kindhearted
  • Kindred spirit
  • King
  • Kinky
  • Kissable
  • Knockout

L Words

  • Loving
  • Loyal
  • Lustful
  • Ladylike
  • Likable
  • Like-minded
  • Limber
  • Lithe
  • Lovable
  • Loved
  • Lovely
  • Lovesick
  • Lovestruck
  • Lush

M Words

  • Memorable
  • Mad About
  • Magical
  • Magnetic
  • Magnificent
  • Majestic
  • Manly
  • Masculine
  • Mindfulness
  • Mellifluous
  • Memorable
  • Mesmerizing
  • Miraculous
  • Mirthful
  • Mischievous
  • Moonstruck
  • Most excellent
  • Moving
  • Multidimensional
  • Muscular

N Words

  • Natty
  • Natural
  • Naughty
  • Near to my heart
  • Necessary
  • Needed
  • Never-failing
  • Nifty
  • Nimble
  • Notable
  • Nourishing
  • Nubile
  • Number one
  • Numero uno
  • Nutty about
  • Nuts over

O Words

  • Obliging
  • Only
  • Open
  • Open-hearted
  • Open-minded
  • Optimal
  • Optimum
  • Original
  • Out-of-this-world
  • Outstanding
  • Overflowing
  • Overjoyed

P Words

  • Passionate
  • Patient
  • Peaceful
  • Peachy
  • Peachy keen
  • Perky
  • Perfect
  • Personable
  • Pert
  • Petite
  • Phenomenal
  • Picturesque
  • Playful
  • Pleasant
  • Pleasing
  • Pleasurable
  • Poetic
  • Porcelain
  • Pouty
  • Powerful
  • Precious
  • Preferred
  • Pretty
  • Priceless
  • Primal
  • Prime
  • Profound
  • Provocative
  • Prized
  • Promising
  • Pure

Q Words

  • Quality
  • Queen
  • Quintessential
  • Quirky

R Words

  • Rad
  • Radiant
  • Rapturous
  • Rare
  • Ravishing
  • Raw
  • Refreshing
  • Rejuvenating
  • Relaxing
  • Reliable
  • Remarkable
  • Respected
  • Revitalizing
  • Rewarding
  • Rhapsodic
  • Rich
  • Robust
  • Rollicking
  • Romantic
  • Rosy
  • Rousing

S Words

  • Sassy
  • Saucy
  • Satiny
  • Satisfying
  • Savory
  • Scintillating
  • Scrumptious
  • Second-to-none
  • Sensational
  • Sensual
  • Sentimental
  • Sexy
  • Shapely
  • Shimmering
  • Shining
  • Silken
  • Silky
  • Sincere
  • Sinuous
  • Sleek
  • Smashing
  • Smiling
  • Smitten
  • Smoldering
  • Smooth
  • Snazzy
  • Snugly
  • Soft
  • Solid gold
  • Sophisticated
  • Sparkling
  • Special
  • Spectacular
  • Spellbinding
  • Spicy
  • Spiffy
  • Spirited
  • Splendiferous
  • Sprightly,
  • Spunky
  • Statuesque
  • Steadfast
  • Stellar
  • Sterling
  • Stimulating
  • Stirring
  • Strapping
  • Striking
  • Strong
  • Stunning
  • Striking
  • Stylish
  • Suave
  • Sublime
  • Sunny
  • Super
  • Superb
  • Super-duper
  • Superior
  • Superlative
  • Supple
  • Supportive
  • Supreme
  • Surpassing
  • Surprising
  • Svelte
  • Sweet
  • Sweet-smelling
  • Swell
  • Synergistic

T Words

  • Tender
  • True
  • Trusting
  • Tantalizing
  • Tasty
  • Teasing
  • Tempting
  • Terrific
  • There for me
  • Thoughtful
  • Thrilling
  • Ticklish
  • Tip-top
  • Touching
  • Transcendent
  • Treasured
  • Tremendous
  • True
  • True-blue
  • Trustworthy

U Words

  • Uncommon
  • Unconventional
  • Unique
  • Unwavering
  • Unconditionally loving
  • Unequaled
  • Unified
  • Unlimited
  • Unparalleled
  • Unrivaled
  • Unsurpassed
  • Unusual
  • Uplifting

V Words

  • Valuable
  • Valued
  • Velvety
  • Venerated
  • Vibrant, 
  • Vigorous
  • Virile
  • Vital
  • Vitalizing
  • Vivacious
  • Vivifying

W Words

  • Warm
  • Wanted
  • Warm-hearted
  • Wild
  • Wild About
  • Whimsical
  • Wholehearted
  • Winning
  • Winsome
  • Without equal
  • Womanly
  • Wonderful
  • Wondrous
  • World-class
  • Worthy  

Y Words

  • Yearning
  • Yummy

Z Words

  • Zany
  • Zealous
  • Zestful
  • Zesty

Words and Phrases to Describe Your Loved One’s Best Attributes

You might overuse the usual words and phrases when describing someone’s positive traits

Instead of more of the same, use words and phrases that are meaningful and thoughtful yet clearly convey to your loved one how you feel about them.

If They’re Creative…

  • Clever
  • Curious
  • Gifted
  • Imaginative
  • Ingenious
  • Innovational
  • Innovative
  • Inspired
  • Inventive
  • Original
  • Prolific
  • Resourceful
  • Talented

You are intensely gritty and determined, and you always persevere when faced with obstacles.

You immerse yourself in imagination and fantasy yet remain grounded enough to turn your daydreams into reality.

You are a dreamer but don’t live with your head in the clouds!

If They’re Intelligent…

  • Acumen
  • Aware
  • Brainy
  • Brilliant
  • Clever
  • Discerning
  • Genius
  • Knowledgeable
  • Perceptive
  • Wise

If someone based an Internet meme on you, it would have impeccable grammar.

You’re always learning new things and trying to better yourself. That’s awesome.

When I have a problem, I can count on you to offer many different perspectives.

If They’re Loyal…

  • Faithful
  • True
  • Devoted
  • Dependable
  • Reliable
  • Steadfast
  • Trusted

The strength of our bond, like the strength of an army, is in our loyalty to each other.

Loyalty is what makes us trust. Trust is what makes us stay. Staying is what makes us love, and love is what gives us hope.

If I’m with you, I’m yours. My loyalty will never change.

If They’re Hard Working…

  • Achievement
  • Perseverance
  • Industriousness
  • Commitment
  • Conscientious
  • Diligent
  • Ambitious
  • Dedicated

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Talent is a gift, but your work ethic makes you successful.

If you work hard enough, assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.

Your passion always motivates me.

If They’re Unique…

  • Distinctive
  • Rare
  • Uncommon
  • One and only
  • Special
  • Idiosyncratic
  • Unequaled
  • Extraordinary
  • Transcendent

From the top of your head to the tips of your toes, I adore everything and everywhere in between.

You are irreplaceable and irresistible, and I adore you.

You can’t blend in because you were born to stand out.

If They’re Kind…,

  • Altruistic
  • Benevolent
  • Gracious
  • Generous
  • Genial
  • Goodness
  • Warmth
  • Compassion

I admire your honesty, your kindness, and, above all, your heart.

You are a true gift to the people in your life.

Your capacity for generosity knows no bounds.

The world would be a better place if more people were like you!

Wrapping Up

You can use many complimentary words and phrases to highlight your loved one’s positive traits and make them feel great about themselves. Hopefully, this list of words and phrases assisted you in expressing how you feel – and how much you care!

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Angela Doel

Angela M. Doel has researched and written about mental health problems that impact relationships, such as navigating divorce, rebuilding relationships, enhancing communication, and overcoming sex addiction. She published The Couples Communication Workbook: Therapeutic Homework Assignments to Foster Supportive Relationships (2020, Between Sessions Resources, Inc.).

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