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love⋅ly

[luhv-lee] adjective, -li⋅er, -li⋅est, noun, plural -lies, adverb
–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


love⋅li⋅ly, adverb
love⋅li⋅ness, noun


1, 2. See beautiful.
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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].
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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