endearing

adj

1. Inspiring affection or love, often in a childlike way.

   “[…] I dare not call him father, nor he, without shame, own me as his issue, I being illegitimate, and therefore deprived of that endearing tenderness and unparalleled satisfaction which a good man finds in the love and conversation of a parent.”

   “BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, / Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, / Like fairy-gifts fading away,— / Thou wouldst stil be ador'd as this moment thou art, / Let thy loveliness fade as it will; / And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart / Would entwine itself verdantly still!”

   “But the humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.”

   “Or what is conveyed to those unversed in railway matters by reports following a shed visit that "the frame of Claud Hamilton lay in the boneyard and had many endearing messages of farewell chalked on it"?”

   “In legitimate comedy actresses conformed to a Victorian image of coquetry. Most comediennes were termed soubrettes, after their inclination for depicting young women in a variety of situations, in which the soubrettes employed their diverse popular talents to heighten their endearing magnetism.”

noun

1. Synonym of endearment.

   “It was arms around, and perpetual endearings, and all that I had missed for a weary twelve-month.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of endear.