lovelily
li adjective
1.
charmingly or exquisitely beautiful: a lovely flower.
2.
having a beauty that appeals to the heart or mind as well as to the eye, as a person or a face.
3.
delightful; highly pleasing: to have a lovely time.
4.
of a great moral or spiritual beauty: a lovely character.
noun
5.
Informal. a beautiful woman, especially a show girl.
6.
any person or thing that is pleasing, highly satisfying, or the like: Every car in the new line is a lovely.
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adverb
7.
Nonstandard. very well; splendidly.
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| —adj , -lier, -liest | |
| 1. | very attractive or beautiful |
| 2. | highly pleasing or enjoyable: a lovely time |
| 3. | loving and attentive |
| 4. | inspiring love; lovable |
| —n , -lier, -liest, -lies | |
| 5. | slang a lovely woman |
| 'loveliness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
lovely
O.E. luflic "affectionate, loveable," the modern sense of "lovable on account of beauty, attractive" is from c.1300, "applied indiscriminately to all pleasing material objects, from a piece of plum-cake to a Gothic cathedral" [Marsh].
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