lovely
Use Lovely in a sentence
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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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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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Example sentences
The beautiful and versatile camera crane, almost as lovely as it's avian counterpart.
It is also beautiful, and makes a lovely piece of jewelry in its own right.
All the birds were beautiful, but this one was particularly lovely.
Happy times, and pleasant to think back to an amazing time spent with friends in a beautiful land with lovely people.
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