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loveliness - 3 dictionary results

love⋅ly

  [luhv-lee] adjective, -li⋅er, -li⋅est, noun, plural -lies, adverb
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–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, esp. 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.
–adverb
7. Nonstandard. very well; splendidly.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME luvelich, OE luflīc amiable. See love, -ly

Related forms:
love⋅li⋅ly, adverb
love⋅li⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1, 2. See beautiful.
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love·ly   (lŭv'lē)   
adj.   love·li·er, love·li·est
  1. Full of love; loving.
  2. Inspiring love or affection.
  3. Having beauty that appeals to the emotions as well as to the eye. See Synonyms at beautiful.
  4. Enjoyable; delightful.
n.   pl. love·lies
  1. A beautiful person, especially a woman.
  2. A lovely object.
love'li·ness n., love'ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Loveliness

Love"li*ness\, n. [From Lovely.] The state or quality of being lovely.

If there is such a native loveliness in the sex as to make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth! --Spectator.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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