Love and relationships vocabulary

Vocabulary about relationships, romance and love

Probably the most important aspect of our lives is love and our relationships with other people. So that’s why young people are often searching the internet for vocabulary about these topics.

Socializing, parties and forming relationships with other young people from different countries seems to be the most important thing. And therefore a good knowledge of correct English phrases and expressions is absolutely essential.

Better English conversation about intimate topics

This list will be your useful companion when you need to talk about relationships, love, romance or flirting. If you want to ask someone in English to go out with you or just want to have a flirting conversation, be sure to check out these phrases.

You can use them if:

1. you want to have a quality conversation about love and relationships
2. you like someone and want to date him/her
3. you want to understand romantic comedies 🙂

Since this topic is very wide, this list provides many different phrases and expressions about relationships, dating and love. Learning them will significantly improve your conversation skills and most of all, you will have better chance to find a boyfriend or a girlfriend…

LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS: (50 terms)
get over (something)	overcome hard obstacles
prenups	written agreement before marriage
hang out	to spend time
gorgeous	good looking person (usually woman)
find (someone) attractive	to think that someone is attractive
break up	to end a relationship
get in the sack	to have a sexual affair
hot girl	pretty and sexy girl
get over	to recover from a difficult situation
taken	someone who is not single
weird out	to become nervous, to start panicking
soul mate	person with strong emotional connection
loser	person who doesn't win (used in any situation)
get back on one’s feet	regain control of one's life
cheat on somebody	to be unfaithful, having another relationship
to dump (somebody)	to end a relationship with somebody
seeing somebody	to date somebody
tone down	to make something more moderate
cheeseball lines	rather stupid or corny talk
uptight	nervous
freak out	to be excited, to lose control of emotions
backside	rear side of a human body that we sit on
go along (with someone or something)	to follow, to cooperate
push (someone)	to provoke
screw around	to cheat a partner, to have sex outside relationship
pull (oneself) together	regain control of emotions
repel	to cause others to avoid him/her, to drive away
cranky	being easily irritated and angry
say hi	form of greeting
pop the question	when a man asks a woman to marry him
to pigeonhole	to categorize people
let the good times roll	to have a good time (usually sex)
date	person you start seeing as a girlfriend or boyfriend
cuddle	intimate hugging, touching
lock (oneself) in	discontinue contacts with people around you
break up	to end a relationship
priss	overly nice person
storm out	to angrily leave a place
striking	very good looking
one-night stand	sexual relationship for one night
lose (one’s) mind	go crazy, to lose control of emotions
be crazy about (someone)	to be strongly in love
long-distance relationship	relationship when partners are living far from each other
hang up	to end a call
stag	going solo to a party (without a partner)
hunk	good looking male (slang)
to be stood up	when girlfriend or boyfriend does not come to a date
to ditch	to end a relationship
go out	to meet somebody as a girlfriend or a boyfriend
manhood	qualities that men can be proud of