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