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lovely
[ luhv-lee ]
adjective
- charmingly or exquisitely beautiful:
a lovely flower.
- having a beauty that appeals to the heart or mind as well as to the eye, as a person or a face.
- delightful; highly pleasing:
to have a lovely time.
- of a great moral or spiritual beauty:
a lovely character.
noun
- Informal. a beautiful woman, especially a show girl.
- any person or thing that is pleasing, highly satisfying, or the like:
Every car in the new line is a lovely.
adverb
- Nonstandard. very well; splendidly.
lovely
/ ˈlʌvlɪ /
adjective
- very attractive or beautiful
- highly pleasing or enjoyable
a lovely time
- loving and attentive
- inspiring love; lovable
noun
- slang.a lovely woman
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Derived Forms
- ˈloveliness, noun
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Other Words From
- loveli·ly adverb
- loveli·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
When he does, here is a gentleness in his voice, a reflective and lovely quality that no movie he has been in has ever captured.
Note: The egg wash both affixes the pastry to the dish and makes a lovely browned crust.
The Daily Beast spoke with the lovely actress about the holiday movie, in theaters Christmas Day, and much more.
From reports it must once have been a lovely old city with stone houses and a medieval quarter.
Was it Shakespeare, in mad pursuit of a lovely boy and that voluptuous Dark Lady?
The afternoon was a lovely one—the day was a perfect example of the mellowest mood of autumn.
Within the past thirty years civilization has rapidly taken possession of this lovely region.
At the same time he realised that she had never seemed so adorably lovely, so exquisite, so out of his reach.
Louis could not help seeing the lovely group, through the half-obscuring draperies of the open door.
Eve, too, lovely as she is, seems to bear no likelihood of resemblance to Milton's superb mother of mankind.
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